Quotes About Gambling

A young reporter for the Post named Tom Wolfe followed up after my talk with an interview. The Post ran his story, "You Can So Beat the Gambling House at Blackjack, Math Expert Insists." He was curious rather than skeptical, sympathetic but probing. Wolfe later became one of America's most famous authors.

In counting cards, it's mainly the fraction remaining that matters, not the number.

Education has made all the difference for me. Mathematics taught me to reason logically and to understand numbers, tables, charts, and calculations as second nature. Physics, chemistry, astronomy, and biology revealed wonders of the world, and showed me how to build models and theories to describe and to predict. This paid off for me in both gambling and investing.

probability calculations needed to figure out gambling games or to solve problems in everyday life. We didn't need that skill to survive as a species in the forests and jungles.

You know, a professional gambler is not looking for long shots, but for sure money. Of course long shots are fine when they come in. In the stock market Pat wasn't after tips or playing to catch twenty-points- -week advances, but sure money in sufficient quantity to provide him with a good living.

What all addictions have in common is that they involve an unhealthy relationship with something unworthy of human love, be it booze, gambling, applause, or—yes—work.

It used to be said all horse players die broke - you can't beat the races. But today, with the Pick 6's and Superfectas, you can. Not that the odds aren't against you, but a good hit, and it's hard to blow that back.

My father was a racetrack bookie.

You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.

If I gamble, I go for the lowest-end blackjack or slots. It's because I don't like to lose!

Filmmaking is a gamble.

At the end of the day, life is a gamble, isn't it? A lot of it is sheer luck.

Sometimes when you gamble, you get up from the table with a fortune.

I can say, 'right, I will stop this kid in round five.' If I am good enough to do that then fair enough. I don't gamble but my brothers and my friends, they did quite well off it.

I like playing roulette, I like dice. I grew up with gamblers.

They haven't given too many gamblers a second chances in the world of baseball.

All good professional gamblers are selectively aggressive.

The Gambler' is one of the movies that inspired us. We love that movie.

Most gamblers do it for ego. It's not about winning or losing, it's about challenging your ego and showing your mates you're fearless and will bet on anything.

I think that's why gamblers get so bad, being online. It makes it so easy. I don't have any online accounts, I never have.

The only gambling I do is on a Saturday afternoon when I might put on two wingers or two strikers.

Gambling is entertainment. People go to casinos to be entertained.

I'm not a big gambler anymore. I like to do it. I enjoy it instead of trying to make money off of it, because I realized you can't make money gambling.

Who do you think I am, Pete Rose? I don't bet. I come from a long line of compulsive gamblers. Gambling scares me.