‘If you’re not cheating, you’re not trying.’ – Eddie Guerrero

‘I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.’ – Sophocles

‘Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.’ – Salvador Dali

‘No matter how small the dishonest deed is, at the end of the day, cheating is cheating.’ – Mohammad Amir

‘All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.’ – Scott Alexander

‘Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship of someone else.’ – James E. Faust

‘Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.’ – Eric Hoffer

‘The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.’ – Stephen Covey

‘Cheating is nothing to be proud of.’ – Mark Hunt

‘I always say that my biggest fear in a relationship is cheating, and people giving up.’ – Kaitlyn Bristowe

‘Nobody trusts anyone in authority today. It is one of the main features of our age. Wherever you look, there are lying politicians, crooked bankers, corrupt police officers, cheating journalists and double-dealing media barons, sinister children’s entertainers, rotten and greedy energy companies, and out-of-control security services.’ – Adam Curtis

‘Well, when I think of steroids I think of an image. You have the advantage over someone, which is a form of cheating. I guess it wouldn’t be right unless it was legal for everybody. Reason it’s not legal for everybody is because it can hurt people seriously.’ – Evander Holyfield

‘Lying, stealing, and cheating are commonplace.’ – Joseph B. Wirthlin

‘Do something because you really want to do it. If you’re doing it just for the goal and don’t enjoy the path, then I think you’re cheating yourself.’ – Kalpana Chawla

‘Some men are just very good at cheating and lying.’ – Coleen Nolan

‘Cheating is very rarely about the actual act of being with another person.’ – Emily V. Gordon

‘I love doing research. It’s like cheating, but with permission.’ – Greg Rucka

‘I can’t deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you. It’s a conscious thing; it’s a common-sense thing.’ – Taylor Swift

‘You can cheat in solitaire, but there’s nothing satisfying about cheating in solitaire.’ – Vince Gilligan

‘Guys that preach verse-by-verse through books of the Bible – that is just cheating. It’s cheating because that would be easy, first of all. That isn’t how you grow people. No one in the Scripture modeled that.’ – Andy Stanley

‘Cheating is never to do with how attractive you are.’ – Marie Helvin

‘This proving of such and such I found to be almost like cheating. You start somewhere, and then you go into a dark tunnel, and then you come out at another place. You find that you have proved what you wanted to prove, but in the tunnel, you don’t see anything.’ – Werner Heisenberg

‘I have no problem with cheating. Whatever you can get away with.’ – Joe Torre

‘Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash.’ – Dan Ariely

‘Cheating during bouts has always existed.’ – Ritika Singh

‘We come across thirty or so hurried graves with makeshift wooden markers. ‘Private Edwards, E.’, a number, and that was all. Fourteen days ago he was alive, thinking feeling, hoping… If war was a game of cards, I’d say someone was cheating.’ – Spike Milligan

‘Competition, by itself, always leads to cheating by the powerful, who try to establish pyramids of power, like feudalism. Yet, competition is the great creative force! So how do we save it from its own contradictions? By cooperation! By cooperating with each other, via politics, to make rules and prevent cheating, so that competition can thrive!’ – David Brin

‘I know all about cheating. I’ve had six very successful marriages.’ – Bobby Heenan

‘I just hate to see people look down their nose at our game when there’s a very small percentage of players who are cheating.’ – Chipper Jones

‘Heartbreak is good fuel for country songs. And cheating.’ – Miranda Lambert

‘Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.’ – Mike Royko

‘Illegal downloading, digital cheating, and cutting and pasting other people’s stuff may be easy, but that doesn’t make those activities right.’ – G. Hannelius

‘Cheating tends to come up a lot in my songs. Betrayal fascinates me. I think the fact that you can trust someone so much and then they go against that has always plagued my writing for some reason.’ – Jade Bird

‘Cheating on a quiz show? That’s sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip.’ – Paul Scofield

‘I myself am frustrated in just where sports are at. It’s a hard thing when you’re out there working every day, and you know that someone else is cheating and they may not necessarily get caught.’ – Allyson Felix

‘Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.’ – Adrienne Rich

‘There’s nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife.’ – Steven Curtis Chapman

‘I think there were people in my era who people think are great who were cheating.’ – Matt Hughes

‘I’d be cheating everyone here, the staff and rest of my teammates, if I wasn’t able to stay on top of my work. It was almost like therapy, to come back and get in an environment I’m comfortable with.’ – Roger Clemens

‘As society becomes more and more complex, cheating will in many ways become progressively easier and easier to do and harder to police or even understand.’ – Vitalik Buterin

‘I don’t want to live in a bubble, in my craft or in the world… I can’t, I would be cheating myself out of my generation and the world we live in.’ – Diane Lane

‘This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that.’ – John Perkins

‘I think the way you prevent your man from cheating on you is to just have a good understanding about who he is first. If you know that the guy you’re with is a player and he’s already kind of living the life, you know what you’re getting yourself into. You have to be real with yourself.’ – Ray J

‘I’ve kind of changed my diet, but in my diet rulebook, on section 5 paragraph A, there’s a cheating plan. So, Corky’s BBQ is one of my favorite spots to go to.’ – R-Truth

‘One of the more challenging things in life is not being the guy who does the cheating, but not saying anything about it and going along with it.’ – Dale Murphy

‘Dishonesty is all about the small acts we can take and then think, ‘No, this not real cheating.’ So if you think that the main mechanism is rationalization, then what you come up with, and that’s what we find, is that we’re basically trying to balance feeling good about ourselves.’ – Dan Ariely

‘If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account.’ – Al Goldstein

‘I still think my whole career was accidental. I didn’t pursue it. I feel like I’m cheating sometimes.’ – Ben E. King

‘I can’t deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.’ – Taylor Swift

‘I keep coming back to it, over and over – adultery and cheating. It’s the most interesting problem in the theater. How else do you get Oedipus? That’s the first cheating in the theater.’ – Mike Nichols

‘And then Dick called and said, I’m going to do a special called Dick Van Dyke and the other woman, that would be you, because every time I try to check into a hotel with my wife, they look at me as though I’m cheating on Laura.’ – Mary Tyler Moore

‘I think people who sample are cheating. It is like people who do collages. Use all of your own stuff.’ – Bill Dixon

‘I always wondered if you clone your wife and have the cloned wife on the moon and the real wife down here, would that be considered cheating?’ – Luis Guzman

‘With ‘Sweetback,’ I just put it together a little bit at a time. I didn’t do it on anybody’s grant. I did it like any other young executive – by cheating and stealing!’ – Melvin Van Peebles

‘Our job as friends, mentors, parents, and writing coaches is not to write anyone’s college essay. That’s cheating. Plus, it sends a discouraging message to the teenager that he or she can’t be trusted with this important assignment. Trust the student to write the essay, but verify that it gets done. Gentle editing and proofreading are allowed.’ – Kate Klise

‘One of my favorite books was ‘The Book of Immortality’ by Adam Leith Gollner, which talks about cheating death and life extension and frames with a story that David Copperfield finds a fountain of youth on an island he bought.’ – Scott Snyder

‘I don’t care if my opponents are cheating or not.’ – Demetrious Johnson

‘In a way song writing can almost be detrimental, because suddenly you find an outlet that is a kind of cheating. You don’t need to have direct communication. You can say, ‘I can’t describe it to you, but I will record it and send it to you.” – James Blunt

‘I’ve told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn’t kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.’ – Angelina Jolie

‘I’ve had friends who say that they would never forgive cheating, but then they fall in love, the guy cheats, and they forgive him. I don’t know what I would do.’ – Josephine Langford

‘It is helpful to think of people as having two fundamental motivations: the desire to see ourselves as honest, good people, and the desire to gain the benefits that come from cheating – on our taxes or on the football field.’ – Dan Ariely

‘Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise.’ – Richard Thompson

‘I stuck with that size because I could bend the strings so well, and somewhere along the line I must have gotten it into my mind that I had small hands, so I was thinking I’d never be able to play a full-scale guitar, but I also felt like I was cheating or cutting corners.’ – John Fogerty

‘Men are more prone to cheating, definitely.’ – Blu Cantrell

‘You can’t really describe how difficult it is to deal with. It is any athlete’s worst nightmare to be accused of cheating by taking drugs. It really is very difficult to put into words how it makes you feel.’ – Greg Rusedski

‘You could be going to have supper with someone who happens to be male, and all of a sudden he is your boyfriend of nine months… and I am cheating on my existing boyfriend.’ – Caprice Bourret

‘Recognition should come to the reporter who uncovers public cheating or proves a convicted man innocent.’ – Phil Donahue

‘In athletics there’s always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you’re not cheating. I think that’s just a quirk of human nature.’ – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

‘For me working on the marriage and not making the easy choice of cheating was something that I could not do.’ – Al Goldstein

‘Chocolate is not cheating! After a salty meal, you need a little bit of sweet. This is living, not cheating.’ – Ali Landry

‘I once threw a water balloon on a girl because I caught her cheating on me. She was kissing my friend and I thought, ‘Oh, this can’t be happening.’ It was bad and I was much older than you think throwing a water balloon. I was 14.’ – Breckin Meyer

‘It’s important that athletes can compete on a level playing field. And youngsters coming into the sport can know that if they are working hard and training hard, they’ll see a true reflection of where they stand and what they can achieve worldwide and not be swayed by people who are cheating.’ – Paula Radcliffe

‘Maybe the best things about celebrity are the things like being able to get that seat on the plane that you wouldn’t normally get, but that’s kind of like cheating.’ – David Duchovny

‘Aside from being bad sportsmanship – Romney basically said Obama won by cheating – he was displaying the same obtuseness about the wants and needs of ordinary people that did more to torpedo his campaign than any goodies Obama might have had to dole out.’ – John Podhoretz

‘I don’t often go to curator or artist walk-throughs of exhibitions. For a critic, it feels like cheating. I want to see shows with my own eyes, making my own mistakes, viewing exhibitions the way most of their audience sees them.’ – Jerry Saltz

‘I have this firm belief that I am who I am for a reason. If I change something, I’m cheating myself of whatever it is I’m supposed to learn from my body. You know, I’m legally blind. I’m 20/750, since I was in fifth grade. I wear glasses and contacts. But I won’t even get LASIK.’ – Carrie Ann Inaba

‘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.’ – Michael Mandelbaum

‘Cheating is not the American way. It is small, while we are large. It is cheap, while we are richly endowed. It is destructive, while we are creative. It is doomed to fail, while our gifts and responsibilities call us to achieve. It sabotages trust and weakens the bonds of spirit and humanity, without which we perish.’ – Terrence McNally

”Just looking at pictures’ used to be considered cheating. No longer. The graphic novel is booming. Comics, heavily illustrated texts, books with no words are now accepted as reading.’ – Jon Scieszka

‘The atheist is cheating whenever he makes a moral judgment, acting as though it has an objective reference, when his philosophy in fact precludes it.’ – William A. Dembski

‘It might sound ordinary for a woman to find out her husband’s cheating on her, but not if you’re the woman and it’s your husband.’ – Melissa Bank

‘If you became a comedian in the ’80s, you had to work the circuit and make people laugh. Canned laughter is cheating.’ – Paul Merton

‘When you get down to it, the way that the music affects you individually is the most important thing, and when you let things like the location of a band get in the way or have an effect on your overview, you’re cheating yourself out of a really good time.’ – Steve Vai

‘I was always pretty good at school, but a lot of it was memorising, maybe cheating off your mates, stuff that gets you through.’ – Frank Lampard

‘The Democratic Party does not want anybody to have a photo ID because that would have a very negative impact on cheating! If you require a photo ID, that pretty much shuts out cheating. Well, it doesn’t shut it out. It just makes it harder, and that’s why they don’t want it.’ – Rush Limbaugh

‘In England, footballers are respected more, the game is more noble, there’s less cheating. Every Spaniard who goes loves it – and comes back a better player. If I had ever left, it would have been to England.’ – Xavi

‘I’ve never been one to think it was cheating to sample this or to loop the drum part there – I’ve always done that. Even using four-track cassette recorders, I was always doing whatever I could to make it as good as I could.’ – James Mercer

‘When an athlete has relegated the persistent rumors of cheating to the back room of the mind, he hasn’t really forgotten them. And when he glances back to where rumors hunker in the darkness, he hopes with a savage heart that somehow, some day, those cheaters will be brought to justice.’ – Don Kardong

‘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.’ – Martin Jacques

‘We seem wired to grieve with greenery. Allowing the dead to dissolve into the earth, to become part of the cycle of the seasons, has, for millennia, held the promise of cheating mortality.’ – Simon Schama

‘I played the mini-tours for a lot of years, and man, you see some weird things out there. There are a lot of desperate people, strange personalities and marginal players, and with that you’re going to see some cheating.’ – Boo Weekley

‘I had a few dating disasters along the way with girls cheating on me. One girl was the inspiration for me singing ‘Cry Me A River’ on ‘The X Factor.’ That was my payback to her because she was unfaithful.’ – Liam Payne

‘At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause.’ – Aaron Swartz

‘People have always tut-tutted about actors stepping out of line politically. And I can sort of see it because what you’ve got your fame for is not being someone who can influence things, so it’s cheating.’ – Joanna Lumley

‘Seven out of my nine films were hits. 80 per cent of the audience loves my films; the remaining 20 per may be right in their opinion, but that doesn’t make me wrong. If I try too hard to woo them, I’d be cheating my core audience.’ – Rohit Shetty

‘It’s not Apple’s fault that they’re seeking to avoid paying taxes. They’re not lying, cheating or stealing. They’re following the rules that were created by governments. If the government doesn’t like the rules, they can change them.’ – John Mackey

‘I had my bad-boy moment in my teens. I’ll never do that again. It wasn’t pleasant, and I learned my lesson. It was sexy and mysterious, and it’s like, ‘Look how cool they are,’ but it’s just not worth it. He was lying to me and accusing me of cheating – but then I realized he was the one cheating.’ – Jessica Biel

‘In L.A., you work like hell because there is nothing else to do, unless you’re cheating on your wife.’ – Howard Fast

‘We have a history in country music of writing about the darker side of things – maybe not as much in modern times, but there’s a lot of cheating and self-deprecation. We sort it out in song, in country music, as a genre.’ – Chris Stapleton

‘My biggest thing about being a role model is whatever I’m preaching, I’m practicing. If I’m telling people I’m boxing and then I’m eating a burger tonight, it’s because I am. I’m not cheating and eating a salad and then being like, ‘Yeah! Burgers are cool!” – Gigi Hadid

‘Long before I fell in love with writing, I fell in love with reading. Sometimes, honestly, I feel like I’m cheating on my first love when I settle into my office chair to start work on the latest manuscript.’ – James A. Moore

‘I hate it when characters know things but only reveal them when it’s convenient to the story. I’d never do that. That’s cheating.’ – Simon Toyne

‘I never have suspected or sensed a whiff of cheating in any of our Super Bowls.’ – Marv Levy

‘For a long time, I was an assistant in the NFL to George Allen, and George was paranoid that other teams were cheating on him… that they were offering bounties, that they were wiring our locker room, that they were putting food poisoning into the pregame meal of the other team’s stars, stuff like that.’ – Marv Levy

‘Any agreement with Iran should have strong verification and enforcement safeguards to prevent future cheating.’ – Bill Flores

‘I came to the conclusion that I’m not going to give up cycling because some people are cheating.’ – Bradley Wiggins

‘What has happened is just cases of athletes neglecting to correctly check the supplement they’ve had. It’s not like they are deliberately or intentionally cheating.’ – Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

‘The fact is that Hillary Clinton could not stand up to a cheating husband, so how in the world would she stand up to North Korea and some of our other enemies around the globe?’ – Kellyanne Conway

‘Since I started acting, I had to quit a lot of bad habits. I’ve tried to stop biting my nails, because people always look at your nails during auditions. Truth be told, I still have a ‘cheat nail,’ but I’ve been cheating less and less.’ – Callie Hernandez

‘For me, beauty is more about prevention than anything. Especially now that I’ve hit 30, it’s more about being careful and maintaining my skin. I want to keep my youth and freshness and be wrinkle-free as long as possible because I don’t want to have to cheat – that’s what I call any cosmetic surgeries: cheating.’ – Julia Restoin Roitfeld

‘I told my wife, when I go up to the garage and I wash my Cobra, I feel like I’m cheating on her.’ – Bill Goldberg

‘I am not into marriage. You look at all the marriages breaking down and all the people cheating on their marriages, and you become cynical. Marriage is nothing but a label.’ – Nargis Fakhri

‘Today, not to take away from any of the present artists, but music has gotten a little shallow, in my opinion. Everybody’s talking about the same thing: sex, money, clothes, cheating… I want to open up not necessarily better conversations, but, in my opinion, more important ones, and touch on things that are actually going on.’ – La’Porsha Renae

‘Tales of cheating on school and college tests are rife. There have been instances where teachers have given students test answers in order to make themselves look good on their performance reviews. Mentors who should be teaching the opposite are sending a message that lying and cheating are acceptable.’ – Pamela Meyer

‘I’m not saying that I don’t have skills. I’m saying I don’t feel like I can use my skills to achieve self-esteem. I feel like it’s cheating. I think that I should have self-esteem simply because I am a human being who deserves love and deserves everything just as much or just as little as everyone else.’ – John Grant

‘Even if the most ethical people were elected to high position and we ran out of resources, there would still be lying, cheating, stealing, and corruption. It is not ethical people that are needed but rather a way of intelligently managing the Earth’s resources for everyone’s well-being.’ – Jacque Fresco

‘We gotta be proud to be Latino. It’s almost like we cheating because we’re American and we live by American customs, but at the same time, we got that Latino culture. We cheating; we double dipping.’ – Fat Joe

‘I don’t like it when bands don’t want to play that one song everybody wants to hear. I think that’s cheating everybody, and I think it’s selfish of an artist to do that.’ – David Bryan

‘You hear a lot of songs that are about people cheating or about infidelity. I haven’t really heard one before about connecting with the noble part of yourself. I know it sounds a little bit cheesy, but that’s the real deal. There are a lot of people who are making a genuinely good, sweet decision on a daily basis.’ – Andy Grammer

‘If you’ve experienced cheating in a new marriage, the real work is not obsessively combing through all the details of what happened, but rather figuring out if your relationship is worth saving.’ – Emily V. Gordon

‘Often, when cheating happens, we rush to place blame solely on one person – either the person who did the cheating, or more insidiously, if it happened to us, we blame ourselves for not being ‘good enough’ to keep them around. But putting it all on one person doesn’t paint the entire picture.’ – Emily V. Gordon

‘I always did plays, and when I went to NYU – and I didn’t go to Tisch, the theater school, because I was like, ‘Well, acting’s not realistic. You can’t make a career out of it.’ So I just studied general studies and humanities at NYU, but I was doing plays while I was there. So I was sort of cheating.’ – Steve Zissis

‘It’s important that the Olympics are motivating to young people and inspiring to all, and the only way to do that is to ensure clean performances, free of cheating.’ – Elana Meyers

‘Our trade negotiations should ensure that American workers are protected and that there are mechanisms in place to deal with other countries cheating.’ – Carlos Beruff

‘Having Ghost and Raekwon together on multiple tracks is almost like cheating because they fit so well together. Their chemistry is undeniable, and they clearly make each other better.’ – Adrian Younge

‘For professional athletes, the motives for cheating generally are more obvious: money, fame, and often a low likelihood of being caught. But why would a middle- or back-of-the-pack runner lie or cheat in a race that doesn’t even matter?’ – Mary Pilon

‘The Patriots cheat. This is just a fact as established by investigations. They’re a cheating team.’ – Jake Tapper

‘I’ve never understood cheating, probably because I never cared much about my grades. I instinctively knew that the grades didn’t measure anything meaningful – usually just my ability to quickly memorize information I’d just as quickly forget.’ – Caterina Fake

‘Trying to live the image of the life which you have in your head… it’s really hard not to do that, but I do think maybe it’s cheating.’ – Sheila Heti

‘I knew something was wrong; I was constantly tired, and I’d developed numbness on my left side. I’d also become paranoid that my boyfriend was cheating on me. I thought I was having a nervous breakdown. One psychiatrist told me I was bipolar.’ – Susannah Cahalan

‘I started writing songs at eight. Heartbreak songs – don’t ask me why. It was the stuff I used to hear, so I imitated it. I used to write songs about guys cheating. Could you imagine!’ – Stefflon Don

‘I feel like everyone has been in a bitter situation, regardless whether it’s cheating or just not being over someone who is over you – you compare yourself to the next.’ – Ella Mai

‘If science doesn’t convince you, just Google ‘cheating politicians’ for the long and sordid list of men – like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mark Sanford, and John Edwards – whose hormones got the best of them.’ – Mel Robbins

‘Mark Fox is always criticized recruiting: he can’t keep the Georgia kids home. What that means – he’s not cheating and paying. That’s what it means.’ – Jeff Van Gundy

‘If a community water system is forced to conduct a chlorine burn because they are experiencing nitrification, it is because they have failed… It is a remedial action to correct a serious problem they themselves have created because they are cheating on the regulations.’ – Erin Brockovich

‘The worst sense of security is a false one. It’s hard for people to wrap their heads around the idea that those in charge – federal, state and local agencies – might be cheating the system. But, all too often, that is exactly what happens.’ – Erin Brockovich

‘I got injuries already from fighting from guys that have been cheating. And you’re never the same when you get injured like that. I mean, look at my hand. It’s broken, it’s got 16 screws in it. I’m not as strong in this hand. It just affects you, especially this body being my livelihood.’ – Mark Hunt

‘If you are a referee, it’s not easy because everyone wants to win, and so there will be cheating.’ – Rafael Benitez

‘I don’t like all the cheating that’s going in mixed martial arts. I don’t know what percentage of high-level fighters do it, but I think it would be a significant amount.’ – Ben Askren

‘No one has ever taken a serious stab at reducing fraud and cheating in Social Security, Medicare, food stamps, earned income tax credits, and so on. Trump will.’ – Stephen Moore

‘Congress is hiding the details of their party president Rahul Gandhi’s citizenship. Rahul Gandhi’s real name is Rahul Vincy. They are cheating people by hiding the real names of Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.’ – Yogi Adityanath

‘I am really irked by healthy NBA players resting. I really don’t understand it. Players in the past have played all season for years. I just don’t love it. I feel like it hurts the integrity and competitiveness of the game. It’s got nothing to do with the TV partners; it’s about cheating the fans.’ – Molly Qerim

‘If you are cheating on the SATs so your son or daughter can get into Yale, what do you think it’s going to be like for them when they show up to Yale, and they should be at a completely different school?’ – Stephanie Ruhle

‘If you are in a poker game for money and are taking it easy on one of your buddies, you are cheating yourself, your friend, and every other player in the game.’ – Daniel Negreanu

‘I think if you deflate a football, then you’re definitely cheating.’ – Le’Veon Bell

‘Big government, global environmentalism cannot work unless everyone pitches in. With China, Russia, India and a number of other countries constantly cheating the rules of international climate agreements, it makes staying in them an expensive – yet fruitless – cause.’ – Katie Pavlich

‘I feel like when the people in ‘Insecure’ are honest, the characters learn the most. This show has grown my cynicism a little a bit about relationships just because the way men and women responded to the fact that Issa was cheating on her boyfriend.’ – Y’lan Noel

‘Well, the things that country music is parodied for sometimes – trains, drinking, sin, cheating, redemption, jailhouses, rambling, hoboing, on and on, all those things – according to The New York Times, every one of those subject matters is still relevant.’ – Marty Stuart

‘But when you’re cheating against your fellow athletes, that’s something I can’t forgive.’ – Jimi Manuwa

‘Everybody writes about love and cheating and heartbreak. We’ve done all that.’ – Leo Sayer

‘I won the Daytona 500. I won these races twice. I knew I didn’t need anything cheating on my part.’ – Michael Waltrip

‘This is the trouble with cheating: there are no acceptable rules, or laws. It could be a smile, or dancing to a song that you considered to be indefinably ‘ours’. It can feel like cheating to go to a restaurant that you used to go to with someone else. Keeping photographs of exes can infuriate, like retrospective cheating.’ – A. A. Gill

‘What is happening with KCR in politics and how he is cheating the people with false promises and grabbing money and enjoying the Chief Minister’s post and doing nothing for the people of Telangana is out there for all to see.’ – Vijayashanti

‘I have realised I have been cheating myself and it is me who pays for it. So I am going to give myself the best opportunity to give my all. It’s me who walks in my shoes.’ – Kell Brook

‘I’m trying to work on it – not cheating, stopping in the ‘D’ zone, all that kind of stuff.’ – Connor McDavid

‘I’m on many a pill for my skin… I feel like that’s cheating but when I turned 18, out of nowhere I got acne.’ – Sasha Spielberg

‘Just cheating and lying in any way doesn’t go well with me. So as a person, I am not okay with extramarital affairs.’ – Ananya Panday

‘Healthy competition is good for the global economy. Criminal conduct is not. Rampant theft is not. Cheating is not.’ – Christopher A. Wray

‘It’s just, some players I don’t respect. Just their playing style of basketball. I don’t respect it. I feel like it’s basically cheating and I don’t respect a cheater. If that’s your tactic to winning, I don’t respect you.’ – DeMarcus Cousins

‘Since the first Earth Day, the EPA has regulated lead out of paint, air, and gasoline. It started fuel-economy testing (and then caught those cheating on them), phased out ozone-depleting aerosols, and removed cancer-causing pesticides from the marketplace.’ – Andrew R. Wheeler

‘You see stuff that is cheating, no question, and it needs to be sorted out. The biggest thing is moving on the shot by an opponent.’ – Neil Robertson

‘Like every girl, I had dreams of marriage, but I got victimized in a cheating scandal. When the proposal came through the family, everyone was happy. I had started talking to him with the consent of both families and after a week, all of a sudden, we got to know that I wasn’t even speaking with the person whose picture had been given to us.’ – Shamna Kasim

‘If I was guilty of anything, it was cheating on my wife, and that was it.’ – Jimmy Snuka

‘The beauty of film is that you can get closer than you can in theater, you know? I come from theater, and I remember feeling like I was almost cheating when I would put the camera so close to somebody’s face when I was filming them.’ – Marielle Heller

‘If you’re curious how Lance Armstrong got away with cheating for 15 years or why Manti Te’o’s fake girlfriend went unnoticed for five months, it’s because sports reporters are really just starstruck fans, not hardcore journalists.’ – Sean Evans

‘Cheating is one thing – it’s not OK – but at least if you cheat and you come out and you get caught and you’re like, ‘Look, I did this and it wasn’t right. This is why I did it. I’m not going to do it again, I learned my lesson.” – Trevor Bauer

‘I feel like Hendrick just plays games in a way with NASCAR. I feel like they always start the year off kind of bad to like show NASCAR that they’re being nice and cooperating and following the rules and stuff, and then it gets a couple of months in, and then they start cheating and finding some speed.’ – Kyle Larson

‘A cast mate once told me having a YouTube channel was cheating.’ – Carrie Hope Fletcher

‘I’m not big on cutting 20, 30, 40 pounds. I’ll cut 10 pounds easy. I’m not fixing to zap myself just to make weight. I for one think that’s cheating, to try to get that big of a size advantage on guys.’ – Jared Cannonier

‘I wanted to be bad because the good guys were lying, cheating and swearing. Let me be bad by being good and I became a bad guy by being a good person.’ – Bob Backlund

‘Picking fights with or propositioning strangers, betraying friends, lying to family, stealing, cheating and engaging in road rage were things I did with alacrity on Prozac but contemplate now with shame.’ – Norah Vincent