Thomas Hauser Quotes

I understand this business. Sometimes there's a lot of corruption. It's boxing.

The boxing world is full of all kinds of corruption.

There is so much hypocrisy in sports.

Who begins with severity, in judging of another, ends commonly with falsehood.

In all my years of play, I never saw an ump deliberately make an unfair decision. They really called them as they saw 'em.

The national pastime is juiced.

The angle from which the line and ball are seen makes a tremendous difference in the call, and the player who is inclined to fret inwardly about decisions should realize this.

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’ve never found the truth to be fair and balanced.

I stand with all the athletes who believe in doing things right. The ones who win and the ones who lose while knowing they have been cheated out of their positions. There are thousands if not tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of those kinds of athletes out there. We have to remember them.

It is always hard when the referee is against you.

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

I'm not gonna waste my money watching two cheaters fight. Why would I? They're cheaters, in the end. That's basically all they are. They should get nothing.

In every sport you get cheats.

Any game looks straight if everyone is being cheated at once.

False judges are held up in the world's admiration and I alone know the true ones.

Do not, however, mistake me. It is not to my good friend's heresy that I impute his honesty. On the contrary, 'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic.

I want to give the evidence in a way that is convincing, but I don't want to cheat.

A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.

Neither side is guiltless if its adversary is appointed judge.

Anyhow, I don't think Don King's a very good man. But then again, I doubt that a good man *could* succeed in his business. I'm sure boxing was a dirty sport before he came around. He may have just made it moreso. So that's about all I've got to say about him.

I don't think there's anything to be admired in lying, cheating or philandering. But there might be something to be admired in not burning people at the stake because they have those weaknesses.

No matter what I say, honestly, people would only judge me the way they want to.

There once was an umpire whose vision Was cause for abuse and derision He remarked in surprise, 'Why pick on my eyes? It's my heart that dictates my decision.'

it is better in the long run to be cheated than to cheat. I have learned that there is no middle way.