Gennaro Gattuso Quotes

I have never had and will never have anything to do with manipulating match results.

I have never seen or heard anything to do with match-fixing in my time.

I don't like the sleaziness, the corruption. I don't like the fraud that college basketball has become.

Everything is susceptible to corruption of one sort or another - humanity is one big cheat - but it matters particularly with sport, which ceases to be itself the minute the outcome's rigged.

There is nothing more disgraceful for any sportsperson than to be accused of murky stuff like match-fixing or spot-fixing.

During my 21 years of playing cricket, I have never been approached by anyone or offered a bribe.

The cardinal sin in sports, what could really wreck it, is not cheating to win, which has gone on forever, but cheating to lose. That threatens a fundamental aspect of sports' appeal, which is their spontaneity. If games are fixed, they're no different from movies; they're scripted.

I did rough hustling, what they call 'playing against the wall.' I just played myself with the players, so I would pay; I would make them shill. I would pay certain players and then take from others.

Saying that fights in Japan were fixed and that me, along with other guys like Silva, Minotauro, etc., did not win those fights legitimately is an ultimate and absurd nonsense.

Betting by insiders has a corrosive effect. It breeds suspicion, adds to the appearance of corruption, invites more corruption, and, in a sport like boxing, puts lives at risk.

It's naive of anyone to think there is no corruption in football because it's everywhere.

The IOC have decided Russia will pay them £50 million, and that is their punishment for 40 years of duping the world and going against every single clean athlete on earth. The IOC has fought a spectacular fraud with more fraud.

We have to show zero tolerance on match and frame-fixing. There is no other option than a life ban.

In every sport you get cheats.

There's a lot of politics in boxing and it's destroying the game.

The black market poses a greater risk to the integrity of sports than open, visible, and regulated betting.

The boxing world is full of all kinds of corruption.

Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.

Things are neither clear nor clean in the world of football right now and many people recognise this reality.

If the Age of Sport has been all champagne and roses hitherto, then expect our love affair with its newly-acquired prominence to become increasingly tainted by scandals about cheating. Sport is losing its shine and allure.

I don't know nothing about nothing.

I had to cheat, steal, beg, borrow and lie….

Jyoti Basu is the biggest fraud, cheat, and con man in West Bengal.

I love cricket and am the last person who would get involved in something like spot-fixing. Anyone who knows me will think twice before coming to me with such an offer. Because I don't even listen to the captain before I play a match. I wouldn't agree to do it even for Rs 100 crore.

It is greed or financial difficulty that makes people fix matches, not gaining an edge over rivals, so it is different from say Lance Armstrong or Ben Johnson.