Casinos Quotations

I hate Nassau and the Bahamas. It's one of those places I'd always wanted to visit since reading Ian Fleming but it was full of casinos with Americans in shorts.

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.

In Singapore, there is this life and locals and restaurants and then big casinos and an array of chefs, and even Miami is almost close to Vegas when it comes to an amazing presentation of chefs. But they don't have these massive hotels that have become their own culinary villages.

I like theme parks. The fastest roller coaster I've ever been on is at a casino in Nevada.

Now, I'll tell you something that might interest you. Casino Royale was the first Bond book that Ian Fleming ever wrote. And he couldn't get anybody to touch it, to publish it - he couldn't do anything about it at all. Nobody wanted to know.

Sometimes a 3-1 favorite loses. That's why they call it gambling, and that's why they keep flipping over the cards.

The best part about poker is there's no down side.

I really enjoyed 'Casino Royale' because suddenly something changed with this modernity and with Daniel bringing life to James Bond in a very new way.

I love to go to casinos with my wife. I play poker, and she's an old-fashioned slot queen. She even has a visor.

If you spend a week at a casino you will very easily see that people have a certain way of behaving in a casino.

I actually do quite well in Omaha. It's one of my better games. I love pot-limit Omaha and Omaha high-low. I do quite well in them. If I play in a casino, I usually play some kind of mixed game with Omaha and hold 'em.

In America you can be Donald Trump, have a business go wrong, and file for Chapter 11. You can move on, and no one complains. When his casinos were in Chapter 11, he was still on TV telling people how to get rich. I had to persevere for years with easyInternet because I couldn't afford to hurt the brand.

Recently, I went up to Casino Rama to see Martin Short's show, just to see how he put it all together. And after the show, I went backstage and picked his brain to find out why he did certain things.

Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.

You see some of the weirdest people in Detroit casinos.

With the casino and the beds, our passengers will have at least two ways to get lucky on one of our flights.

There are many comedians who are afraid to work outside the coasts and the casinos because they're afraid they'll bomb.

Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.

We've always had our casinos on barges. They've always had to be over water. Due to the hurricane, there was a lot of interest to move our casinos on land.

What they're doing now is they're making their locals casinos a more upscale brand. Maybe they're stopping short of a Green Valley Ranch. But they're targeting areas of big growth in high-income neighborhoods like Southern Highlands.

Three's a lot of economic impact that would be unfairly applied to other eating and drinking establishments beyond casinos if indeed it goes into effect on April 15. In anticipation of the jolt the industry would experience, we want to make sure nobody goes through any particular hardship from April 15 on. That's really the motivation.

The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.

A lot of our respected financial institutions are just casinos in drag.

We reached out to other casinos on the Strip, but everyone was filled. Our main effort was to make our guests as comfortable as they could be until the situation was resolved.

We had a very snowy early January (2005), and that ended up being very problematic for casinos in the northern tier ...

New blood coming into poker is good for everybody. It is good for the industry, good for casinos and the players on the tour. We're seeing a lot of young guys win and there is a lot of money out there.

I wish Donald nothing but the best for Apprentice 2 and I hope it does just as well as his casinos do. You don't come after dogs, you don't come after kids and you don't come after The Hair.

I'd like to see them gone, ... It wouldn't bug me if they didn't rebuild at all. Last year when they asked to be allowed to put their casinos on pilings, that was supposed to be all they needed. That was not all they needed.

I don't blame Ron Saxton for the quarter of a million dollars that the casinos are spending on ads to attack me because I know he can't control what those special-interest casinos do.

Basically this sub-concession will give them more control and it's important because it is the last available sub-concession. But the real issue for us is when their two casinos are going to be completed as there were some delays and changes to the development.

Full casinos are tourist destinations. They're not just casinos. They're shows, they're shopping, and dining.

If all the ducks are lined in a row, these casinos can open the doors as soon as the conditional license is received.

If the casinos don't re-prime the pump, then the pump's not going to get re-primed. There is nothing else down here that could do it.

We expect to do a large retail business with the Planet Hollywood brand on everything. We have a new logo and fresh ideas and expect there will be synergies with the hotel-casino to turn the retail into more of a profit center than most casinos enjoy.

We have to be competitive to stay alive. The casinos can give food, rooms and drinks away, but we can't. Now, you can only smoke at the casinos ? this is going to be devastating to business.

He violated the Michigan gambling law that which regulates the use of gaming and casinos in the state. Essentially, by being on his computer placing a bet and gambling while in the state of Michigan, he went against Michigan statute, which regulates and controls gambling.

It is integrated with the fabric around. It is not like a space ship out of no where and just dumped there and totally incompatible with what you want your city to be. So by showing this, I am just showing you that it is really possible to have casinos that bring in a lot of tourists and generate a lot of tax base.

Our clients are primarily concerned about what goes on in New Buffalo. Our clients probably don't care what goes on with the casinos up north. The problem is, they all (are under) the same contract. You can't challenge one without challenging all four.

Station Casinos will build a high-end shopping center there,

I think people get desensitized by cameras. They get used to them in casinos and then are less surprised when they are elsewhere.

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.

The apparent increase in gambling among youth is staggering. All of the West Coast states and Idaho and Nevada have set the age at 21 and only two of our Indian casinos allow people under age 21 to gamble.

With all the casinos coming ... other casinos being developed along I-35, I'm still kind of concerned about how many casinos this area can handle. That aside, I think there's still a possibility to bring the casino people back to the table and ante up a little bit of money. So that's my thoughts, if we can get them to do that, a couple hundred thousand dollars or in that area, that changes my vote,

We believe this is likely the first of several projects of similar size and scope, which we anticipate could Include Reno and Durango. We expect Station Casinos to provide a more detailed development outlook on the company's fourth-quarter earnings call (in January).

Tribal-operated casinos have realized that that's a very good way to bring in traffic to their casinos. They're looking for people to come in and spend money on gambling, not just go to a concert.

The problem that all of us are trying to figure out is: When did out-of-state casinos become more important than in-state small businesses? We tried to persuade the Senate, and we tried to persuade the House. . . . We are now going to try to persuade the governor.

You have obvious valuation discrepancies between the two for a start. You have also got a slight issue that the number of London casinos could come under scrutiny from the Competition Commission.

The fact that they decided to go ahead with two casinos shows that they are pretty desperate to bring in dollars. It must have given them a lot of heartburn to reverse their opposition to vice.

We will fail if we don't allow the casinos to come on shore.

There has been a high level of interest by the casinos that's only going to intensify after today.

This region twelve years ago was a ghost town, ... The casinos and hotels have revitalized the area and added 14,000 jobs.

We are excited to be the home of blackjack on television, and this new tournament structure will bring together top players from across the country. The World Series of Blackjack will feature the best players from qualification tournaments held at casinos nationwide. The popular series, produced by Planet Grande, will bring viewers hours of exciting blackjack strategy and action for its third season in a row.

We've got about 4,500 employees associated with those casinos right now.

The reason for the casinos is to bring destination resorts.

Do I consider myself a part of the casino capitalist process? No I don't. I believe in a society where all people do well.

We've put together a first-rate team that has considerable experience in designing casinos that are visually attractive and fun for visitors.

Bethlehem was built without casinos and all the things we have here were developed without gambling money. They will absolutely ruin our city and they will run it to their advantage because they have all the money.

Everything to do with travel and leisure and theme parks and hotels and casinos is just getting mashed. But I think once people get over their shock and sadness, a vacation might seem like a good idea.

Are you telling me they're going to do a new urbanist village when the center of the economy is vice? ... Casinos in Mississippi were such a pariah land use that they were not even on land. Now they're going to be the basis of a traditional community?

Early estimates that casinos could open within a few days are overly optimistic, and, at the least, we expect severe business disruption from the devastated areas for the next several months even if some of the casinos can get up and running over the near term.

It was a nice little market to get into. I worked most of the casinos and became the magic guy in town. It was a great way to get into the industry.

The stigma of playing in casinos is long gone. They've improved over the years.

The state only recognizes the state lottery, horse racing and its authorized off-track betting sites, the casinos and any charitable gambling event that is authorized by the state Office of Consumer Affairs or controlled by the Legislature.

The (Singapore) government is conscious that the region will be very different by the time the casinos begin operating in 2009.

Saturday night we had five young Italian people in here. They were heading to the casinos and stopped here. They got espressos, but they saw this and went crazy.

That's not correct at all. His position all along has been economic development, job creation, keeping people within the state where money can be used for state and local education. From his perspective, having three casinos creates more jobs and more economic development than having one.

The mistake that was made in the '70s and early '80s was that they took the ideas from the Vegas strip and jammed them down Atlantic City's throat. It's been successful, but to get to the next level, to real excellence, you need casinos that take more advantage of the boardwalk and the beach and the marina.

You're benefiting from the explosion of the casinos. They give artists chances to be seen in new markets, and the casinos can pay a good amount of money to bring in these acts.

You must be 21 to play any Iowa Lottery game. When the Lottery started it was 18, then in 1991 lawmakers made the age for casinos 21 and they wanted it to be universal.

This is something that's been ongoing forever and ever. As soon as you get two casinos next to each other, there is going to be some sort of competition. They see somebody's doing something and it's cutting into their market share, they're going to act.

This bill is about more than gaming, ... By signing this bill, the state is taking the necessary precautions to provide safety for the casinos and, in turn, is providing jobs for thousands of displaced Mississippi workers.

This bill brings a level playing field to all casinos whether they are over the water or on dry land and ensures that the tidelands program will continue to improve the quality of life on the Gulf Coast,

Think Sinatra and Dean Martin and Hollywood starlets throwing down chips in Art Deco casinos like the Dunes and Sands. That's where these pieces come from.

This is an effort by regulators to bully, intimidate and threaten casinos in a totally inappropriate manner. Clearly, they are playing with fire.

There's been not enough made out of the ripple effect that the casinos bring. It extends into individual proprietorships like the coffee shops.

Atlantic City is on the rise. In 2005, the annual gaming revenue for the city's 13 casinos rose 4.4 percent to $5.2 billion. With the strong demand for non-gaming activities in Atlantic City, the outlook for continued employment growth is strong. We're expecting to see a big turnout.

For many years we had one of the most bitter environmental battles in the country. We still have environmental wars, but they're comparatively small scale. We've transcended partisanship. We work closely with the casinos and ski resorts now.

It's the first time anybody can remember us closing. We closed because we think the floodwaters can go higher and we want to play it safe. It's a strange feeling to see the casinos dark.

It's the first time anybody can remember us closing, ... We closed because we think the floodwaters can go higher and we want to play it safe. It's a strange feeling to see the casinos dark.

It's possible to have casinos to bring in a lot of tourists and help the tax base, but that are respectful of the community at large.

It's a matter of working out the logistics so that all our member casinos can buy in and support it. From what I understand, Champ Car has been meeting with downtown casinos to make that happen.

It's hypocritical. Is it affecting business, or is it not affecting business? They're telling us, the small people that it's not affecting business, but when it's in their pocket, the casinos, now you're exempting the casinos because the state's got so much money tied up in the revenue of the casinos.

They were typical communities, the Gulf Coast naval ship yards and bases, the casinos and the fisherman. These people have been very impacted. They were functioning. Now they have nothing.

The revenues have gone up and up. The old assumptions are out the window. The casinos are finding the right mix of games and the right mix of marketing to attract players.

I'm not so sure the casinos themselves are going to want to build in those same spots. There's a lot of risk involved.

In general, we didn't find in the polling that casinos were all that favorable, but that doesn't mean that some form of slots wouldn't be acceptable.

Indianapolis might not be interested in renewing after the tire farce that happened in 2005. I'm looking at alternative solutions. The best would be a street race in Las Vegas that passes the main road where all the big casinos are.

I'm getting all these calls from casinos asking 'Are you locked in? Barry Manilow was all over us, inviting the girls to the show, but we couldn't fit it into the schedule.

If we want world-class resorts that will be about much more than just gaming, ... if we want to build the Coast bigger and better than ever before, I believe we will fail if we don't allow the casinos to come on shore, even if only a few hundred feet.

In West Texas, he was making them to get the Native American casinos out there. He has been spreading money around in return for currying political favors." ()

In the past month we've seen record-breaking earning announcements from a number of the top casino gaming companies. It didn't seem to matter went on with the economy or gas prices, people found their way to the casinos and race tracks.

I don't know how they will get these companies to invest millions into these projects unless they are allowed to build them on land. They would not only protect the assets of the casino companies, but land-based casinos could benefit the market greatly.

Gaming tribes are getting the same amount of money distributed to them under old formulas. I think it's time to look at perhaps a new formula that gives those who don't have the benefit of casinos a larger share of the government's assistance.

The best bet you get is an even break.

The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning.

I can't think of one benefit from having casinos on water. People will look back and think everyone was on ether during the time this was established as policy.

I didn't want to do 'Casino Royale' when they told me to audition. I said no. Then they sent me the script, and I thought it was actually very interesting - and I had no other work at the time.

Lets embrace productive capitalism, not casino capitalism, by restoring transparency and true competition in the commodities markets.

A dollar won is twice as sweet as a dollar earned.