Charlie Baker Quotes

Legalizing betting would create over a hundred thousand new jobs, over $6 billion in wages, and inject $25 billion into our economy.

Gaming is the backbone of Nevada's economy.

I'm not really a gambler, but I'll bet on the Super Bowl or some boxing. Something I feel comfortable with.

As a matter of fact, believe it or not guys, you can actually lose money in sports! I know that you'll find that shocking.

The casinos brought lots of revenue and jobs to our community. We've seen lots of benefits from those tax dollars.

Never bet on baseball.

Small businesses are vital contributors to our economy. They are the economic engine that is creating jobs, exploring innovation, and expanding opportunities for Americans in every community across the Nation.

As I said in my state of the state address, we can no longer rely on gaming and sales taxes to pay our way. Indian gaming next door in California is eroding our major industry in Nevada.

I can't remember, I wish I could remember the first time I bet on baseball.

I admitted I bet on baseball, but I wasn't suspended from baseball for betting on baseball.

But I also think that it does create a lot of revenue, but to me it's a temporary revenue stream because it's an industry that, if suddenly gambling started in Massachusetts, then a lot of our patrons who would gamble in New Hampshire if we had it, would disappear.

There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother's milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won't be any winners.

You allow me to license and regulate marijuana, and I'll fill every hotel and motel room in the state of Kentucky.

The gold rush of yesterday has become the green rush of today…. Nothing makes a market like a government mandate.

Persons whose wagers depend upon how particular selected athletes perform in actual sporting events stand in no different stead than persons who wager on the outcome of any sporting event in which they are not participants.

I play football, that's what I do, and people can bet on me if they want to, and if they don't, then their loss. Then they don't get a share of the wealth.

While, to me, daily fantasy is in no way sports betting, it's certainly a cousin of sports betting in that it attracts many of the same type of people who would otherwise choose to bet on sports.

I don't follow football, because it's predetermined.

Most major sports benefit from the fact that betting by the general public fuels fan interest and boosts television ratings. The Super Bowl and 'March Madness' are prime examples. But sports other than boxing draw a clear line where betting by participants is concerned.

The only gambling I do is on a Saturday afternoon when I might put on two wingers or two strikers.

Nobody is going to come into Alabama to buy lottery tickets. The only people that are going to buy them here are those that live here, and that's just a certain percentage of people.

People like to have fun, and what better way to have fun than go to a football or baseball or basketball game in Vegas?

At the Mirage Sportsbook, you can get a line on 2 kid playing wiffleball in the backyard in Minnesota

The Super Bowl is like Christmas shopping at Macy's for bookies.

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