Sports Betting Quotes

As far as the gambling debts on there, not one cent was any type of sports betting. It's just something obviously I'm not proud of because it drags a lot of other people into this than I'd want. It's something I'm continuing to deal with.

Let me be clear: Any new approach must ensure the integrity of the game. One of my most important responsibilities as commissioner of the NBA is to protect the integrity of professional basketball and preserve public confidence in the league and our sport. I oppose any course of action that would compromise these objectives. But I believe that sports betting should be brought out of the underground and into the sunlight where it can be appropriately monitored and regulated

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

I actually used to be a front for the largest national sports-betting syndicate in America.

Remember this: The house doesn't beat the player. It just gives him the opportunity to beat himself.

Sports betting is all about money management, so the most money won on one event is not the most important thing

The ban on sports betting does exactly what Prohibition did. It makes criminals rich.

The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.

I don't think I have ever learnt a difficult lesson. Probably sports betting, which I have lost money on. I did lose money on Apple. You'd have thought you could only make money on Apple but I was one of the people who managed to lose.

All pro sports, as well as the NCAA, should thank God every day we have sports betting here... We have the only agency in the world that regulates the honesty of games.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.