Best 435 quotes in «gambling quotes» category

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

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.

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 thee what it says; it calls me villain, a treacherous husband, a cruel father, a false brother; one lost to nature and her charities; or to say all in one short word, it calls me - Gamester.

I know a little bit about handicapping. If the horse has an IV, you want to stay - away from it.

I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.

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

I'm absolutely gonna win it, because I'm ruthless. I sit at the poker table and my job is to destroy people.

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

I make movies I want to see.

I'm the type of guy where one thing leads to another and eventually it gets awful. If I put a $5 bet on a roulette table tonight at 10 o'clock, by tomorrow at noon I would be running guns to Cuba.

I mean, what do you do in Las Vegas? You gamble - and you go to strip clubs.

I met with an accident on the way to the track; I arrived safely.

I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.

I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.

In a free enterprise system, with an honest and stable money, there is dominantly a close link between effort and productivity, on the one hand, and economic reward on the other. Inflation severs this link. Reward comes to depend less and less on effort and production, and more and more on successful gambling and luck.

I never enjoyed working in a film.

In 1993, 40 percent of Minnesota restaurateurs reported declines attributed to casinos

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

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

In fact, a University of Connecticut study showed that as many as three in four pre-teens and teens who are exposed to Internet gambling become addicted.

In Louisiana, we don't bet on football games, we bet on whether a politician is going to be indicted or not.

In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and to keep them coming back. The longer they play, the more they lose, and in the end, we get it all.

In most betting shops you will see three windows marked 'Bet Here', but only one window with the legend 'Pay Out'.

Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.

In permitting gambling enterprises to flourish in the United States and abroad, the United States undermines global socio-economic stability in contravention of its international obligations

In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.

Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?

Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets.

I paint inspired by my father, a well known character of the nightlife; a clandestine gambling capitalist and owner of three brothels in Argentina. I develop my work in a time that, from my point of view, is much more romantic than the present day.

It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees.

Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.

I tell ya, gambling never agreed with me. Last week I went to the track and they shot my horse with the opening gun.

I think a lot of people like to gamble, and they don't want to go to the casino to gamble. Sometimes they want to do it in the privacy of their home. They can't concentrate the way they want to in a gambling casino.

I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.

I think gambling can be a good thing if you don't take it too seriously. Take it and have fun with it, and don't lose what you can't afford to lose.

It is not economic development; it's about taking money out of the consumer economy and shipping it off to Las Vegas

It is morally wrong to allow suckers to keep their money.

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

It is lost at dice, what ancient honor won.

It's been a difficult thing because some great opportunities have come and I've just been holding my breath and praying... I'm basically gambling hoping something will come along this season and if not, I don't know what the future holds.

It is not whether you win or lose, but who gets the blame.

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

It is possible that a wise and good man may be prevailed on to game; but it is impossi∣ble that a professed gamester should be a wise and good man.

It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.

It's interesting and somewhat dismaying how many people will look up to anyone who wins a multimillion-dollar lottery - but will deride anyone who has worked either hard or smart to attain prosperity and real success.

It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.