Quotes About Gambling

You know you have a gambling problem when it's 4 A.M. at the Mirage Sports Book and you're walking around going, 'Hey you get the lacrosse scores?'

I've got to have a bet going in order to play my best.

If you're betting all the time, everything is just another bet. You don't even think about the money after you've made the arrangements. You're used to it.

I was getting up in the morning and betting on Lithuanian under-20 basketball matches.

The aggressive betting on the daily doubles is one of my trademarks.

I love blackjack.

I had a system at blackjack.

I think there's a mental block for betting big amounts that doesn't exist for me but it does for other people.

I can bluff with the best of them.

I truly believe that at some point they're going to have kiosks in every NBA arena, like they do at the airport when you get your boarding pass, so you can bet on the games.

Football was always a deal we made with ourselves. We adopted it for its brutality, which was embedded in a context that happened to be perfectly suited to television and to gambling, but which we could convince ourselves was only incidental to our enjoyment because it was only incidental to the game itself.

It is true that the Puritans banned all recreation on Sundays and all games of chance, gambling, bear baiting, horse racing, and bowling in or around taverns at all times. They did so, not because they were opposed to fun, but because they judged these activities to be inherently harmful or immoral.

One thing it was not: love at first sight. He didn't believe in such. He wasn't a believer in romance, sentimental coincidences, "meanings" snatched out of the air. He certainly didn't believe in destiny, he was a gambler by nature and you know that destiny is just chance you try to manipulate for your own profit. Yet

You cannot outwit fate by placing little sidebets on the outcome of life. It's either you wade in and play in order to win or you don't play at all. - Matthew Farrell

I think, Nick snarled, that the stupid bastard isn't smart enough to win a poker hand with a deck of marked cards.

and gains at the gaming tables spread from White's

People who buy lottery tickets in vast amounts show themselves willing to pay much more than expected value for very small chances to win a large prize.

for a large majority of fund managers, the selection of stocks is more like rolling dice than like playing poker. Typically at least two out of every three mutual funds underperform the overall market in any given year.

A few lucky gambles can crown a reckless leader with a halo of prescience and boldness.

the evidence from more than fifty years of research is conclusive: for a large majority of fund managers, the selection of stocks is more like rolling dice than like playing poker.

None arrives at the races, purchases Daily Racing Form, and within minutes begins to play.

But that is precisely what life is, wouldn't you agree? Everything is a matter of choice, and when we choose are we not gambling on the unknown and its being a wise choice? And isn't it free choice that makes individuals of us? We are eternally free to choose ourselves and our futures. I believe myself that life is quite comparable to a map like this, a constant choice of direction and route.

Women are like that nowadays, never happy unless they're dancing or gambling.

A murderer is always a gambler. And, like many gamblers, a murderer often does not know when to stop. With each crime his opinion of his own abilities is strengthened. His sense of proportion is warped. He does not say, 'I have been clever and lucky!' No, he says only, 'l have been clever!' And his opinion of his cleverness grows... and then, roes amis, the ball spins