“We don’t stop playing because we get old, we get old because we stop playing.”
— Doyle Brunson, the “Godfather of Poker,” who died May 14 at the age of 89
“It is a minority of matches, a minority of athletes who are willing to do this. These are people who tried to fool the betting companies as they searched for an easy profit. And they did it in an organized and repeatable fashion.”
— Fernando Cesconetto, district attorney of Goias state, Brazil, speaking about a match-fixing scandal his office is investigating
“Our research shows that men and younger people are most at risk. Under-35s are more likely to gamble in the first place, more likely to have upped their habit in the past year and spend more than other age groups.”
— Emma Walker, LifeSearch’s chief growth officer, remarking on the Health, Wealth and Happiness Index’s decline this year, which leads some to turn in despair to gambling as a “quick fix”
“Closing would wipe out the little town of Vernon.”
— Jeff Gural, owner of Vernon Downs Racetrack and Casino, giving dire warnings of the fallout if he is forced to shut the property rather than lose $2 million a year
