Quotes About Gambling

Doc Webster's eyes rolled briefly, like loaded dice, and came up snake eyes.

Only in Nevada can you put up a billboard that says "Hot Slots" and attract thousands of women.

This poor gambler isn't even a noun. He is kind of an adverb.

Because sometimes longshots came in. Both for good and for ill.

The best throw of the dice is to throw them away.

My regular game in New York City was a $250,000 buy-in, no limit. So people were burning through that, a lot of times in the first 30 minutes.

There is a respectable body of economic thought that holds that casino gambling is actually economically regressive to a state and a community.

I think it's great fun sometimes when I am playing golf, just to give it a little uch, is to bet the other guy five bucks a hole or something like that.

The hooks didn't roll out any more sevens than my hands did before them.

I always loved to gamble. I never got close to a horse. Fate dealt me a terrible blow when it gave me a good horse the first time out. I thought how easy this is. Now I love being around them.

Anybody who finds it easy to make money on the horses is probably in the dog food business.

I think anybody who bets on horses and says they win is probably a liar.

I still gamble, but it's all legal. I own horses, and I go to watch my horse. I don't go daily.

My character at 'Mel's diner' was involved in betting on the horses and all that.

I was a professional gambler. When I lived in London, there were a couple of years when I didn't really earn money doing anything else. I mean, I did other things: like, I made work, and I was working with Derek Jarman at the time, but the way I made money was putting money on horses.

I am worried about the potential effect of casinos on communities.

Betting on football had been banned and, if anything, things got worse. I'd bet on horses instead. I knew absolutely nothing about horses.

Artists of all times are like the gamblers of Monte Carlo, and this blind lottery allows some to succeed and ruins others. In my opinion, neither the winners nor the losers are worth worrying about.

Uncertainty doesn't make life worth living, quite, but it does make striving and gambling worth attempting.

Of course I gamble, to make the games interesting. But five hundred dollars a game, tops. Or sometimes a thousand. No heart attack bets.

We washed our shirts and trews and when we went out to get them off the bushes, they were as stiff as corpses in the cold. Some poor cows froze where they were standing like they had peered into the face of old Medusa. Men lost the wages of three years hence at cards. They bet their boots and then pled for the pity of the winner. The piss froze as it left our peckers and woe betide the man with an obstruction or hesitation to their shit, because soon they had a brown icicle on their arse

Thanks and praises Thanks to Jesus I bet on the Bottle of Smoke I went through hell And to the races To bet on the Bottle of Smoke The day being clear The sky being bright He came up on the left Like a streak of light Like a drunken fuck On a Saturday night Up came the Bottle of Smoke Twenty fucking five to one Me gambling days are done I bet on a horse called the Bottle of Smoke And my horse won

My bottom line is this is no time to be gambling with our economy

It's time to wipe the slate clean, recriminalize gambling, just like we did in this country 100 years ago