Sports Corruption Quotes

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

We're concerned how gambling and betting affects the NHL game and changes the perception of and challenges the integrity of the NHL game.

I'm aware that the World Cup is probably the greatest spectacle in the world of sport, and that's despite the referees that have been found to have fixed games specifically.

Conflict of interest and lack of transparency, though they are global features as we saw post-Iraq, almost define Indian cricket.

We've gotten into this situation where integrity is really lacking and that's why I'm glad I'm not coaching. You see we've got a coach at Kentucky who put two schools on probation and he's still coaching. I really don't understand that.

In the 1950s, when I was hanging around Sullivan's Gym and the Gramercy Gym, there were fixed fights. Mob guys like Frankie Carbo and Blinky Palermo had taken over the sport; one lightweight champion loaned his title to others at least twice; the welterweight division was a slag heap.

I was a piece of meat. I was betrayed by the business of football.

Too frequently, we hear about coaches and programs willing to win at any cost.

In the game of cricket, a hero is a person who respects the game and does not corrupt the game. The one who doesn't or corrupts the game, they are the villain. They should be punished, and they have been punished in the past.

I never paid, or intended to pay, $10,000, or any amount of money, to any player for knocking Kurt Warner, Brett Favre or any other player out of the 2009 Divisional playoff game, 2010 NFC Championship Game or any other game.

Drugs are very much a part of professional sports today, but when you think about it, golf is the only sport where the players aren't penalized for being on grass.

The Tour de France would make a great movie. Drugs, corruption, political chicanery, guys risking their lives - everything you need for a great sports drama.

Owners, the way they blackballed me from baseball, the way they used me, in a sense, and then the way they wanted to send a signal to the other players, saying, you know, we're going to get Jose Canseco out of the game. This is a cue or a message for you other guys to stop using steroids because the owners lost total control of the steroid use.

Footballers are an easy target. They are offered big lines of credit. Every sport is vulnerable; it's such a big gambling industry, and there are problems with syndicates in other countries.

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.

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

If you look at the sponsors who were in the sport 15 years ago compared to now there are a lot fewer. Why? Because those runners who took drugs tainted the sport. They tainted all of us in it.

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.

I care about football, so what Im seeing regarding the image of FIFA, not only now but in the past years, I dont like it.

I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed.

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

Obviously you know match-fixing is out there but you don't really associate it with the English game.

Football and gambling - two great American addictions working together. What could possibly go wrong?

My motive, and I will make it clear and look you in the eyes, is to attack major league baseball. That's my motive.

When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw your taxes.