Vegas Quotations | Page 2

No one outside of Vegas has ever won. In other words, we blew away the Vegas casinos.

More and more, we're hearing from our customers that they don't gamble when they come here, but they still like Las Vegas for the shows and the sightseeing.

Nevada and especially Las Vegas has a very strong tourism-based economy and the tourism industry is highly unionized in Las Vegas. As that sector of the economy continues to grow the union density has kept pace.

Plus, Las Vegas will be the beneficiary of displaced convention business (from New Orleans), which will help stimulate demand.

If they think prices are going to take off again like they did in 2004, they're in for a long wait. That ain't gonna happen. The status of our market is not so dependent on what goes on in Las Vegas this year, but it's dependent on what goes on in California. We've already seen markets over there hit the wall in San Diego and Orange County and other places, too.

If we can turn the turnstiles and fill up the seats, we know the business model will take care of itself. I do know this is an affluent group of people because just to get to Las Vegas these people will have had to spend $1,000 already to get here.

I came to Vegas because I wanted to, not because I thought it could help my career. I didn't even know they had comedy clubs here.

Certainly, the beginning of Chinese New Year helped the January 2006 numbers as it helped February's numbers last year. Every crevice of Las Vegas had strong numbers and this can only point to strong demand for product from Las Vegas locals to Hawaiians visiting downtown alike.

But G2E, with 700 exhibitors, shows it's an open industry. Las Vegas has thrived on openness and we should send a signal the industry is open.

I have been a resident of Nevada for 52 years. When I moved here, Las Vegas had a little over 22,000 people and Reno was only slightly larger.

If, in fact, Las Vegas gets the game, it'd be the biggest event since Elvis.

Give Vegas credit. They spread us out and executed.

I always have a big cheering section everywhere I go, whether I'm in New York, Vegas or in Florida," ()

He did what he had to do, he held his own (in the Las Vegas Bowl). He started off (the game) a little shaky, but once he picked it up against that competition, he was doing the same thing to a guy from LSU that he did to guys from Lock Haven.

He made everyone else look like Little Leaguers. The way things were going for him, he should've stopped in Vegas on his way home (from Phoenix) because he'd be a rich, rich man.

We suspect the future of this market may unfold similarly to the recent slowdown in Washington, D.C., or a situation similar to the events that transpired in Las Vegas a little over a year ago,

Hatred is not what Las Vegas is about, ... We will have zero tolerance for anyone who is intolerant.

Historically and also the current outlook is for Las Vegas and Orlando to be neck and neck among American tourists.

Hollywood and entertainment people are in Las Vegas on a regular basis. Sports stars and legends from all sports are in our town, and now you bring in the best basketball there is in the world, the NBA All-Star game. Combine that with their legends, it is going to be a tremendous weekend for all the participants.

Under his leadership, the Las Vegas Municipal Court became a model for limited jurisdiction courts across the country. Video arraignments, counseling programs and many other innovations were brought to Las Vegas by Judge Brown,

He did not come to Vegas with the express intent of driving on the sidewalk and killing people. That wasn't his intention when coming to town, ... However, the instantaneous decision was made, and he did deliberately and intentionally drive on the sidewalk.

He knows how to say the right words and give a little smile and wink and get his own way. He's a bit of a rogue. Brad Pitt's character in 'Thelma and Louise' is really what I see Vegas being like. He's not what I would call an evil person but Vegas would have probably walked away with the money just like Brad Pitt did in that movie.

has always recognized that Las Vegas service is a crown jewel for this airport. In the past we've been disappointed that we could never get a schedule to Las Vegas that we needed. Now we'll have a four-day schedule.

There are so many reasons to love Vegas. Anything that your heart desires is there. Starting June 16, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, but starts in Stockton.

The only thing that people can be certain of in Vegas is that change is constant.

I was in Vegas for a month, and I had to come home to take care of my cattle,

I wouldn't be able to do this without help. Without help, I'm probably in Vegas working or going to school.

Joe has provided strong leadership during his two years at the Fremont Street Experience -- exactly what we expected from his many years of marketing and senior executive experience. During his time as president and chief executive, the Fremont Street Experience launched new light show technology, hosted several marquis events for the Las Vegas Centennial celebration, and managed through a number of substantial ownership changes with member hotel/casino properties. Joe was also instrumental with the City's successful efforts to energize major new developments throughout the Downtown area.

I think the future of cruising is outstanding. Today, cruising captures only 2% of the vacation market in this country. That's just 9.6 million people, while Las Vegas attracts over 37 million and Orlando is over 40 million. But cruising is capacity constrained. Our ships are full. If we wanted to be 6% of the market, we'd have to double the size of the fleet.

Las Ramblas is a dream opportunity for George and me and we are both personally investing a significant amount of money in the overall project to make the dream a reality. We have also each committed to buy residential units in the project. We have discussed developing a project in Las Vegas for the past two years and, after considering many opportunities, are excited to build our vision with Related and Centra and contribute to the ever-growing, dynamic city of Las Vegas. With a complex of buildings situated in an environment unlike any other built in Las Vegas, we are excited to add a new dimension to the city's sophistication and glamour.

I was delighted she said yes and we agreed we'd get married in Vegas to try and recreate that great week we had when we first met in January.

I think we're at the crossroads -- whether we want to be the entertainment capital of the world or a great American city. Our economy is good. Things are so wonderful in Las Vegas and it's time to move to the next level.

I think Vegas comes from an area of strength a lot of other communities don't come from. There is a lot of money in Vegas -- a ton of cash there that other cities don't have that Goodman has access to. Also, a lot of time when teams get ready to move they'll court three or four cities. Some seriously and some for negotiation value.

It is a shame that we now have to deal with Fremont Street LLC and the city of Las Vegas in the way government typically has to deal with deadbeat dads.

Pebble Beach was the ideal site for the Bing Crosby event and Augusta National is, of course, the perfect site for The Masters. Wynn Las Vegas is the perfect location for The Ultimate Game. We are honored Steve Wynn would select our event to be played on his course.

People always told us how much people in Vegas cared for her and all this stuff they did for her. We wanted to see it with our own eyes.

Our hole 11 at Campbellsville is 404 yards and on a level surface, and he drove the green on that one -- in competition. He and I played in a golf tournament in Vegas two consecutive years, and on a 517-yard par 5 there, I saw him hit a pitching wedge 95 yards to the green.

Overall, we remain impressed with results from the high-end business and expect that the addition of Wynn Las Vegas will help maintain the strong momentum.

Over the last three or four years I drove every inch of Vegas and we walked into every casino. We even had some deals that went into agreements, but for one reason or another, it wasn't right. But this one was absolutely perfect.

Our pre-World Championship training plan is coming together nicely. We feel excited and fortunate to be able to have the USA Senior National Team conduct its domestic training for the next three summers in Las Vegas. We appreciate the efforts Las Vegas Events and the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority have made to make this happen.

Our Vegas test went good. It feels good to get off to a good start. Last year we didn't, but a couple of years before that we did and it certainly helped us both seasons. I think we won early in '03 and '04, so hopefully we can keep it up all the way through the year.

Outside of a Grand Slam, I don't think there's a tournament in the world that has this many top players representing their countries. It's really remarkable that we have this many No. 1's. And with so many countries being represented, it's going to give the fans from Las Vegas who are from those countries a chance to come out and root for their countrymen.

Our company has announced it is going to make a significant capital expense investment at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, but on the specifics of those projects I'm not ready to comment.

State Route 160, we've been talking about for a while. We think the meeting was important in that it brought all the parties together to make sure we're on the same sheet of music and so Las Vegas knows it's a primary concern, with all the growth in the southwest.

Mary is already a winner, with a free trip to Las Vegas worth a few grand.

I was in Las Vegas playing at the original El Rancho Vegas, with Joe E. Louis, who took me there as a supporting act. And he came to see me.

I think if you were a gambler and you had a million dollars, you should have gone to Las Vegas and bet a million dollars that Tennessee and Rutgers would meet in the NCAA tournament.

I think just going to Vegas in general is always good. It's good for the series, good for the fans, good for the drivers. It's just a very different race in a very cool city.

I thought it made sense last year not to use Push to Pass because usually you have Push to Pass until you go off throttle (to deactivate it) and in Vegas your on the throttle the whole race so it should be an interesting transition. I think it's a little strange but if everybody has it, I'm sure it will be fun. Everybody will probably wait to use at the end of the race because you don't want to use it too early then not have it for the last lap which is when it counts but who knows, maybe that will be too late. It's a new factor and the good thing is that I'm in the best team and they'll tell me what to do I don't have to think, just drive.

I think the strongest sign of Las Vegas is the investment. No one is scared away or slowing down as a result of what's being built elsewhere.

Melissa Barak, an ex-City Ballet dancer and sometime choreographer, has put together an unspeakably dopey and incompetent mess called 'Call Me Ben,' combining ultra-generic dance, terrible dialogue and disastrous storytelling, about the founding of Las Vegas by the gangster Bugsy Siegel, who insists, violently, on being addressed as 'Ben.'

There's just no quiet in Vegas.

We never went out and played shows before we got signed because the music scene in Las Vegas is so bad. There's not a lot going on. In our practice space, there were something like 30 bands, and every day we'd walk into that room and hear the exact same death-metal bands. So it kind of influenced us to be different. And to get out of Las Vegas.

You know how most illnesses have symptoms you can recognize? Like fever, upset stomach, chills, whatever. Well, with manic depression, it's sexual promiscuity, excessive spending, and substance abuse - and that just sounds like a fantastic weekend in Vegas to me!

We're all living in a casino. It's just Vegas. Everything is on camera. Everything is being recorded. Everything is on audio. The truth is we all have access to everybody else's information.

What strikes me as funny about Elvis is that all the impersonators choose to do the Vegas Elvis, not the young, cool guy...

That would be the worst thing that could happen to us, to be all casinos, and we've known that since Day One. We don't want to be the Las Vegas of the South.

We hope the fireworks go on. Vegas is the place to be on New Year's. We just offer a more controlled environment.

Those guys, I won't mention names, they needed Vegas because they didn't have a career on the outside. Michael is doing well everywhere, and the longer you hold off coming into Vegas with success on the exterior, the better off it is. He will stick, without question.

We exchanged photographs three months later and in January I went to Vegas for some temp attorney work, to play some poker and meet Jackie. The day before we met, we actually spoke on the telephone for the first time. I knew we had a connection, but didn't know where it would go. I'd never met anyone on the Internet before, let alone on a poker site. We only used IM for such a long time, but I felt the closeness between us.

We have some good benefits in Las Vegas . We don't have an income tax, and their retirement is 100% paid for by the school district.

We are thrilled to be able to reveal to Las Vegas our plans for the new Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino,

We have also been consistent in saying that we would have to re-evaluate our investment thesis on Pinnacle if it were to go much above $43, given our concerns about returns on the Las Vegas Strip.

We have this romantic notion of a place where you put on a jacket or a dress to go to dinner, ... We will have some sort of dress code so that it will feel like you are walking into a more formal Las Vegas of a different age or a classic Monte Carlo casino.

Yeah, man, I'm going to be in Vegas no matter what next year. No matter what happens, I'm in Vegas next year.

We need locals to use the north-south roads that serve them best. If you're a local and have a better route to avoid some of the congestion, use your best judgment. Of course, Las Vegas Boulevard is the primary north-south route.

We've been fortunate enough to have really good racecars whenever we unload at Vegas over the years and I really don't expect this weekend to be any different. The guys do a great job setting these cars up. Obviously, at this point it's too early to tell how the weekend will go, but we've got some momentum and we're coming to a track where we've enjoyed some success in recent years. We're coming in with high expectations.

When I got here the lounges were the thing. That's how Las Vegas got to be Entertainment Capitol of the World. The first lounge act I saw in Las Vegas was Freddie Bell and Sonny King at the Sands.

We set a grueling schedule for ourselves going out of state to Las Vegas and Illinois. We think our plan came together. Our guys are wrestling well, they're wrestling poised, and they came through in some tightly contested matches. That's a testament to the work they've put in.

The demand for race tickets in Las Vegas continues to increase every time we stage a NASCAR race. We're especially thrilled to be announcing this sellout, given that we added the 17,000-seat Richard Petty Terrace for this year's race.

We're excited to partner with NBC on the mini-movie and Las Vegas show integration to help ramp up excitement for the 2006 Olympic Winter Games.

We're excited to be performing in Vegas and be able to reward lucky fans to play at this rockin' Poker event! ... We can't wait to feel the energy and excitement of playing for our Vegas fans.

Statistical high Vegas odds probability is that nothing of any significance will ever happen to you in your entire boring life.

When I first went to Vegas, there were just high-rollers and gamblers and the wise guys treated you great.

The thing I love about Vegas is that it's a melting pot. It's like working Ellis Island.

I've never gambled a dime. Never, in all my years in Vegas.

Las Vegas is a SimCity game gone horribly wrong.

I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas - fat, drugged, and completely out of it.

But Vegas is really my first home.

I have a new saying, what I see in Vegas, I am telling everybody.

What happens in Vegas, I'm telling everyone.

Las Vegas is a very strange place. It's a place of broken dreams.

We don't need to talk about what Vegas means to our family,

We're trying to create a more upscale environment than exists in Las Vegas today. The casino won't just be a normal casino.

We're trying to attract this subculture here to immerse them into the Las Vegas experience.

We had a couple of good rescues. We had a guy from Las Vegas maybe he learned to surf in a wave pool; I don't know.

We believe Red Rock will redefine a new development and experience standard for both the locals and Las Vegas Strip markets.

We believe most investors will focus on the softness in the Las Vegas locals market.

This ship will have the same jaw-dropping awe that the newest casino-hotels in Las Vegas have.

The opening of the first new resort on the Las Vegas Strip in five years obviously had an impact.

There are growing voices in the nuclear power industry that support looking at alternatives to burying nuclear waste 90 minutes outside Las Vegas given the insurmountable obstacles facing Yucca Mountain. With each passing day there are fewer and fewer justifications for moving forward on efforts to bury nuclear waste in Nevada when on-site storage is safe, affordable and already in use.

There are 60,000 condominium and 19,000 condo-hotel units currently proposed, planned or under construction in the Las Vegas Valley. But we anticipate that less than 25 percent of those units will actually be built in the next five years.

When you have 130,000 rooms and you're already pushing against the capacity of your roads to move people from the airport to the hotel, you need some sort of effective public transportation or it's just a matter of time before Las Vegas Boulevard becomes a permanent parking lot.

When you go into California and don't run well, and come to Vegas and don't run well, it puts a lot of pressure on you. But we finished 11th at California, and that's our goal this week. And if we can do that at these two race tracks, which have been our biggest nemesis, I think we can expect to have a pretty good season.

We need to be looking at where Las Vegas needs to be.

We are excited to be playing in the Las Vegas Holiday Invitational again, ... We have a very inexperienced team this season, and by playing in the tournament, it gives us three extra games, which will be invaluable during the stretch run.

Every year, I am overwhelmed by the tremendous support the Grand Slam for Children receives from the Las Vegas community, business partners and the entertainment industry, ... It is gratifying to know that 100% of the money we raised tonight will directly benefit children who require our assistance.

Exposure at another event outside Las Vegas really raised the profile and awareness of the shopping opportunities found in Las Vegas.

We were driving to Vegas for a show, ... In the middle of the desert, a giant fight broke out. I was driving, so I was trying not to throw any punches, just stiff-arming people's faces and stuff and trying to stay in the middle of the road. We didn't pull over. It was pretty much an inside-the-car fight. It was little out of control. I thought I was going to die.

We were driving down the street one day, and said, 'We gotta learn to rap if we're gonna be in music today.' I was a paralegal, she was working in a hair salon. Now we're a million-dollar-a-year business and fly all over the country. We're also going to be in Vegas on a permanent basis beginning in April, going back and forth from Phoenix every week. We'll be hooking up with that new George Clooney hotel he's building there.