Gambling Quotes

I wanted Raging Bull. I wanted Casino. I got Rocky and Bullwinkle. But that's OK, because I still get to tell people I've worked with Robert DeNiro.

They head the list of bad to bet on: But I insist they're worse to get on

The best part about poker is there's no down side.

I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.

Once you adopt a value-investment strategy, any other investment behavior starts to seem like gambling.

I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis.

A lottery is a salutary instrument and a tax... laid on the willing only, that is to say, on those who can risk the price of a ticket without sensible injury, for the possibility of a higher prize.

Wine loved I deeply, dice dearly.

It's completely idiot proof." I told them they've got it all wrong. I want a machine that is "idiot friendly.

Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.

If you mind losing more than you enjoy winning, don't bet.

The pain of losing is diverting. So is the thrill of winning. Winning, however, is lonelier, as those you've won money from are not likely to commiserate with you. Winning takes getting used to.

The only gambling tip which amounts to anything is to keep out of the game.

The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organsie gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.

Grantland Rice can go to hell as far as I'm concerned.

There would be economic disruption in Omaha from expanded gambling...You would just be moving Chernobyl closer to the population center

I don’t like gambling very much. I don’t like being at the mercy of those little white squares that roll around and decide whether you win or lose. I like to have the say-so myself.

I don't see how you have the nerve to oppose this bill when you run the biggest gambling business in the world - gambling on the hereafter.

I find the only thing that really stands up, better than gambling, better than booze, better than women, is reading.

It is a bad business, dealing in lottery tickets ... Riches got in such a hasty manner never wear well.

Gambling makes boys selfish and cruel as well as men.

Our whole Depression was brought on by gambling, not in the stock market alone but in expanding and borrowing and going in debt... all just to make some easy money quick.

Gambling: A sure way to get nothing from something.

Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25 to 100 per cent.

Play is hand-to-hand encounter with Fate.

Personally I don't think day traders are speculating, because traditional speculation requires some market knowledge. They are, instead, gambling, which doesn't.

The world is more than a game of cards. History is more than a record of gambling operations.

I like gambling on stuff that you don't know anything about. That's when it's exciting.

The thing about online gambling is that it's never away, it's always accessible. And so, if you have an issue with gambling, it's designed to take advantage of that.

Nothing is sacred to a gamester.

Losers walking around with money in their pockets are always dangerous, not to be trusted. Some horse always reaches out and grabs them.

I don't think there's an improvised word in the movie. I hope not because I admire writing. Improvising is kind of gambling. It's just that you're standing up.

If, instead of playing the horses, an individual chooses to play the market, that is his own affair. Only he must understand that speculating in stocks is gambling, not investing.

Do not fold, spindle or mutilate.

I admit to spending a fortune on women, booze and gambling... the rest I spend foolishly.

You know, there's a 12 step program for gambling. You should look into that. Twelve steps. Coyote laughed. I'll bet I can do it in six.

I understand it is 13-8 against Egon Ronay publishing a Good Betting Shop Food Guide by 1997.

Many players will not improve because they cannot bear self-knowledge.

In betting on races, there are two elements that are never lacking - hope as hope, and an incomplete recollection of the past.

He was so honest you could play craps with him over the phone.

as long as there is a lottery, we the people of the United States must believe in getting something for nothing.

Everyone except gamblers knows that gambling never pays. ... Losing, like winning, only increased his determination to play.

I gamble with one foot pointed toward the door.

Football and gambling - two great American addictions working together. What could possibly go wrong?

Gambling is a most foolish and imprudent pursuit.

Two-up is Australia's very own way of parting a fool and his money.

There is a lure in power. It can get into a man's blood just as gambling and lust for money have been known to do

...in his gambling, he had one besetting weakness -- faith in a system; and this made his damnation certain.

You know what's sad about this? Not the gambling, but the best way to reach college athletes is the Cartoon Network.

You [Donald Trump] wanted it [casino in Florida] and you didn't get it. I was opposed to casino gambling before, during and after. And that's not - I'm not going to be bought by anyone.