Lisa Madigan Quotes

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

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.

I love being a punter.

I don't believe bookmakers.

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

I never really gambled - certainly not playing poker. I'd casually bet on a football game or joined a pool.

I learned to bet the Red Sox, the Celtics, Suffolk Downs. I thought it was a glorious life - pull up to the doughnut shop, spread out, and plan your day.

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.

I bet on baseball in 1987 and 1988.

Many times the players get in there and it's just about as well as they could have done, and other times they get in there and they favorites and they don't win.

Daily Fantasy Sports has nothing to do with sports. The “game,” such as it is, uses sporting events the way the lottery uses ping-pong balls. Being into DFS because you’re a sports fan is like being into poker because you’re just generally a big fan of clovers, diamonds and spades. Indeed, the best players don’t know anything about sports at all, a fact they are cheerfully honest, even boastful, about.

Relatively, a very small percentage of betting takes place on hockey and even baseball because of the nature of the game and the scoring.

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 can say, 'right, I will stop this kid in round five.' If I am good enough to do that then fair enough. I don't gamble but my brothers and my friends, they did quite well off it.

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.

As a general rule, Las Vegas sports books take boxing bets only on major fights.The same is true of most Internet gaming sites. Within that framework, not only does boxing allow participants to bet on their own bouts, it sometimes encourages them to do so.

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

In most betting shops you will see three windows marked 'Bet Here', but only one window with the legend 'Pay Out'.

I'm not a betting man, and even if I was, I certainly wouldn't bet on this! I would not bet on the Best Actor.

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.

Never bet on baseball.

When you make a bet, you're saying something.

Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.

Delaware is the only state east of the Rockies that is allowed under federal law to offer sports betting.

I'm not a gambling-man. I have never bet a dollar in all my life.