Best 435 quotes in «gambling quotes» category

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

Greyhound racing is a self-regulating gambling business that depends on the uncontrolled breeding and unaccountable disappearance of thousands of dogs every year. That is a situation that is unacceptable and indefensible

Guessing has never been widely acclaimed as a good gambling strategy.

He had the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.

He said, Son, I've made a life out of readin' people's faces, and knowin' what their cards were by the way they held their eyes.

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

Hold'em - like life itself - has its defining moment. It's the flop. When you see the flop, you're looking at 71 percent of your hand, and the cost is only a single round of betting.

Historically, the stock market is like a gambling casino with the odds in your favor. Over the long pull, stocks are given something like nine and a half to ten percent compounded per year. The banks have probably given you something in the order of four to five.

Horse racing is animated roulette.

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.

Horse sense is the instinct that keeps horses from betting on men.

I bet on a horse at ten-to-one. It didn't come in until half-past five.

I am best described as just a guy with a very large bump of curiosity and a gambling instinct.

I am not one of the people who believe that the main reason why a chap becomes a bookmaker is because he is too scared to steal and too heavy to become a jockey.

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

I am not surprised that there are gambling houses, like so many snares laid for human avarice; like abysses where many a man's money is engulfed and swallowed up without any hope of return; like frightful rocks against which the gamblers are thrown and perish.

I came to the conclusion long ago that all life is six to five against.

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

I could have gone for gambling or sex addiction,...But I went for obesity because of the tremendous impact it has.

If I were a gambling man I would put all my money on there not being anything other than this universe.

I don't play golf competitively. I tell everybody that I cheat so they won't gamble with me. That's why you can't watch football. Everybody's gambling. They don't want to watch the game; they watch the spread.

I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.

If, after the first twenty minutes, you don't know who the sucker at the table is, it's you.

If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.

If gambling were banned, those social costs would drop, tax revenues from consumer goods would increase, and money would be pumped into the productive economic sector

If I had the money and the drinking capacity, I'd probably live at a roulette table and let my life go to hell.

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.

I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.

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 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 a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?

If I lose today, I can look forward to winning tomorrow, and if I win today, I can expect to lose tomorrow. A sure thing is no fun.

If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.

If the government wants to stimulate the economy, it should outlaw gambling

If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with big technology, either to push it forward or to stop it, is gambling in human lives.

If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog.

If you don't like my movies, don't watch them.

If you don't like trading, gambling and betting, then you don't like living.

If you ever go to Las Vegas, and you will, just go for a few days. I was there recently for seven days, seven days in Vegas. After I blew all my money on gambling and prostitution, I had six days to kill.

If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

If you look around the table and you can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

I have a bad gambling problem. You're not in show business for 12 years and dress like this without a bad gambling problem.

If you run for election with a particular agenda about saving jobs, about strengthening manufacturing and farming jobs, about tackling predatory gambling and making governments accountable, if there's an opportunity to achieve that agenda with either side of politics, particularly if you come from the political centre, then it's an opportunity you should take up.

I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people - being always excited.

I love Vegas. God knows that I know how to find my way around the buffets in Las Vegas.

I knew a guy who had $5 million and owned his house free and clear. But he wanted to make a bit more money to support his spending, so at the peak of the internet bubble he was selling puts on internet stocks. He lost all of his money and his house and now works in a restaurant. It's not a smart thing for the country to legalize gambling [in the stock market] and make it very accessible.

I'll tell you how to beat the gambling in Las Vegas. When you get off the airplane, walk right into the propeller.

I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The soul is so impalpable, so often useless, and sometimes such a nuisance, that I felt no more emotion on losing it than if, on a stroll, I had mislaid my visiting card.

I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that's different than you imagine it.