QUOTABLE QUOTES

Outrageous pronouncements, simple statements and words of wisdom.

“In the coming years, we will be making significant investments to strengthen our competitiveness. We already have top-level professionalism… but in the future, we will also need know-how from outside the company.”
Heli Lallukka, executive vice-president of human resources for Veikkaus, on the company’s restructuring to compete in Finland’s gaming market after it ceases to be a monopoly

“I think it could very well become the best games we offer.”
Jeremy Levine , founder and co-CEO of Underdog, a daily fantasy site, of the effort to gain approval for its Pick’em games

“If they’re going to want tribes to sign onto this, tribes are going to have to know exactly what they’re signing onto.”
— James Siva, chairman of the California Nations Indian Gaming Association, speaking on why a proposal from two men has fallen on deaf ears so far.

“I don’t think anyone in their right mind thinks that 2024 is going to happen.”
— Victor Rocha, conference chairman of the Indian Gaming Association, on his prediction that the proposal will go down to defeat.