Nick Nicholson Quotations

I could tell 30 seconds into the conversation that he was a race fan.

From an economic standpoint, you have to look at expanded gaming, but this has nothing to do with horses,

It also will be an opportunity for everyone to be proud of our community, because it portrays central Kentucky at its most beautiful.

At our core, it's an old-fashioned vacation that takes place in one afternoon.

The whole issue should be not how this is going to affect the horse business, and I think too often we've allowed it to become that,

The sales produce virtually all of our net, ... we just try to break even on the races.

The sales produce virtually all of our net,

Sometime around late August we expect this project to be completed.

It's of Boswell's opinion that there is a need for other places in the state to have licenses, and I think we should be respectful of that, ... And I agree with his words that this is on the table and this is a starting point, or a suggestion, and we ask that it be done in the context of broader things...a Constitutional amendment should deal with the proliferation issue.

It looks nice, but at the core it's all business,

I'm sure you've heard the word ambassador a lot today. That's the way he represented the sport in public; he was a great sportsman and handled victory and defeat with equal style and class. But I also had the privilege of seeing the leadership he gave to our industry in private, when the cameras were not on.

If I were a member of the legislature, the effect of Kentucky's horse industry on the expanded gaming question would not be enough for me to vote yes,

If I were a member of the legislature, the affect of Kentucky's horse industry on the expanded gaming issue would not be enough for me to vote 'yes,' ... It's got to make sense from a broader standpoint. The issue to me, which I think it is to most people, is more about how our children are educated, or about seniors, and the basic services provided by the government and the problems of funding and the infrastructure of government at the local level. It's about all these things that add up to what kind of Commonwealth we have and how we're going to pay for it.

If people don't take care of their body, if they're hungry, tired, they might go back to their hotel, or fly back home because many of them come in on their own planes,