Lottery Quotations | Page 2

You must be 21 to play any Iowa Lottery game. When the Lottery started it was 18, then in 1991 lawmakers made the age for casinos 21 and they wanted it to be universal.

This could be practice for next year, but this kind of race is a lottery and I've got good enough form to get a result.

This is a game of chance that is considered a lottery game. The lottery has specific abilities and they wouldn't have the ability to do video poker for instance.

They say getting a show on the air and having it be a success, literally, the odds are like winning the lottery. For me, I've won the lottery several times, so I've been awfully lucky.

They have four, five, six pro prospects on their team. They'll have a lottery pick coming off their bench. They're obviously more talented.

There's a lot of great players in the draft. Kessel and Johnson may be rated before or behind me, I don't think it really matters. Anything can happen on draft day, depending on the lottery and the different interests from different teams. Anything can happen and I think that's why it's such an exciting day.

This is what I'm here to do and I'm very excited, ... It's been busy, busier than normal with the lottery and the draft, so it's going to be nice to get into a routine and get on the ice every day. That's the fun part.

They're making as much money selling you a cup of coffee and doughnut as they do a tank of gasoline. They stay in business selling soda pop, cigarettes and lottery tickets.

A billion one-fifty (in sales) is certainly a challenge. The reason I'm not too nervous is you have such a large population, and a large population for a lottery means you have a lot more occasional players than most states do.

It was the busiest I've seen since the lottery was started.

It's a bit of a lottery but we played some good cricket. Today was our day. I don't think it will have any impact on the five-day matches to come.

For Harriet to say she was brought in to clean up the lottery ignores the timeline. She's got it backwards: Things were great when she got there and a terrible mess when she left.

It's a lottery thing, ... In my field of operations research, it's called an action-timing problem: Dynamically over time you are offered opportunities to make decisions and once you say 'yes,' you cannot go back.

It's like winning the Lottery and the (football) pools on the same night.

It's going to be nice just to talk to him and talk about some hockey things. It's been busy, with the lottery and the draft, and I just want to get started and see what the level of play is like and get out there and push myself and get ready for the season.

It sounds like what you're saying is, instead of the justice system, it's the lottery system.

The odds of finding a world-class deposit are such that you would be better off buying a lottery ticket,

Everybody has dreams. Ever bought a lottery ticket? You talk about it, 'Hey, what are you going to do?' Buy an island. Buy an airplane. In reality, I'm not really a fan of flying, and I don't like water.

That kid, if his team is in first place or on national TV all the time -- or if he's playing with a Duke uniform on -- they're talking about this kid being a lottery pick. That kid does it all. He plays for 40 minutes every single game and doesn't take possessions off. That's special.

It's much more easy to win the lottery than it was.

It's not a good time to buy a lottery ticket if you're a Pirate. But that's baseball. Hopefully, that will turn around and it will start falling our way.

Take a look at what your grandparents or parents are receiving, whether it be some lottery scheme or some type of get rich or business opportunity.

It's important in our Lottery Commission appointments that we appoint the folks with the highest moral character, ... I don't want North Carolina to be a place where the lottery turns out to be a major problem.

It's clear that the governor understands the potential problem that gambling causes teenagers, and the lottery in particular.

I've been working my whole life for this moment and I feel like I have just cashed in. He may not have been in top for coming back from injury and I've been playing a lot and feeling confident, my body's been feeling fit and rested, so I think a combination of those factors, I think I cashed in on a bit of a lottery ticket, I guess.

No matter how successful a lottery is, it's going to be difficult for a lottery to fund (all) education because it costs so much.

Not everyone in Oregon gambles. But to succeed a lottery needs a class of people who are problem gamblers and pathological gamblers.

The truth of the matter is that most (NBA) people have said that. You can't guarantee a lottery pick, but he's going to be bigger and stronger. He made a good decision.

That's a misguided way to approach it, since a lottery would exploit the very people this proposal is designed to help.

The largest concern that we have is the impact that easy access to gambling the accessibility to buying lottery tickets is going to have on the public as several of the commissioners recognize.

I have senior citizens giving me $20 bills and someone gave me a lottery ticket.

I'm like one of his fathers who couldn't be prouder of him. It's a long story, but at the bitter end his agents accused me of badmouthing him to the NBA people; because they had convinced him he was a lottery pick.

I'm fully expecting that we'll have a big surplus next year, ... and I'd like to see a plan for that now rather than waiting until that money comes in, then blowing it like a drunken lottery winner.

If I won the Lottery I would definitely just spend my time with my children and do up old houses. I've lived in my current house for 15 years and I'm still finding things that I want to do to it.

I'm very, very thankful. The NCAA Tournament to me, what's the lottery motto? You've got to be in it to win it.

I just took a short walk away from the plane. I'm gonna buy a lottery ticket tonight!

In this era of lottery funding, the money tends to follow successful sports and successful athletes. Certainly, failure makes it more difficult to succeed.

In the past, we've left all these lottery numbers up to chance,

In season it's not uncommon for them to spend at least 40 hours a week, often 50 or 60 hours (on their sports). These guys do it willingly because they believe they can win the lottery and become a high-paid pro athlete.

If you really want something in this life you have to work for it. Now quiet, they're about to announce the lottery numbers

Hopefully I am gaining knowledge of lottery essentials.

I certainly prefer using the lottery proceeds to increasing property taxes, which I don't favor.

I don't sell porn, I don't sell lottery tickets. I don't sell cigarettes or low-end screw tops.

Life is a rotten lottery.

The manner in which they go about making those decisions will dictate a tremendous amount about the manner in which the lottery is operated.

This is our lottery win and we have a choice. We can spend it all now or we can think through a plan and invest it and live off the interest forever,

The idea is to help people make life choices. The award from the Big Lottery Fund will allow us to continue and expand on these services and training packages.

I won the family lottery. I come from the best family in the world.

You want to take this seriously. This is why we play the game. This is why we play the regular season, so you get to compete for a championship. We've got a lottery ticket and we have an opportunity. Let's see what we do with it.

The first two were nothing, but the third ticket said I needed to go the lottery office. I didn't know whether it was the Match-5 winnings or something else. But when they said I had to drive to Baton Rouge, I started looking for someone to drive me.

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

And if you then want to play it yourself, you better understand accounting. You better understand discounted cash flow because stocks are not lottery tickets. They are real companies and eventually they can only grow as far as their real earnings, not their fictitious earnings.

The likelihood that an investor might be able to randomly pick the next Picasso -- that's a lot like buying a lottery ticket and hoping to win big. You have no real data here on what the average return is from a random purchase of art.

The logo is symbolic of the state of North Carolina. If somebody's standing 50 to 100 feet away and they see it, they know that lottery tickets are probably on sale in that store.

The location for the proposed establishment is less than 75 feet structure-to-structure distance from a nearby residence. Therefore, the applicant does not meet the criteria for locating a video lottery establishment at this location.

The location for the proposed establishment is less than 155 feet structure-to-structure distance from a nearby residence. Therefore, the applicant does not meet the criteria for locating a video lottery establishment at this location.

The lottery is what started it all. It left an ugly taste in people's mouth. Then the thing everybody talked about for 10 years how a lottery would introduce corruption to the state was happening.

The lottery is not going to take care of this. The governor's plan only helps.

The lottery has become the white noise of society. It doesn't stand out as it once would have. As long as people here keep the lottery cool and don't offend the North Carolina sensibility as long as it doesn't get tacky I think it'll come off fairly well here.

The league itself should not put any coach or any organization in position that you're better served to lose than win. That's why the change in the lottery was great. They took that conflict of interest away. They need to take the conflict away from the Clippers gaining financially and with home-court advantage by losing.

We all have won the lottery of life. How do we discharge that responsibility?

A lottery is a tax on stupidity.

A lottery is the perfect tax...laid only upon the willing.