Quotes About Gambling

You mean that luck turns?' 'Exactly, Hastings. And that is where the gambler (and the murderer, who is, after all, only a supreme kind of gambler since what he risks is not his money but his life) often lacks intelligent anticipation. Because he has won he thinks he will continue to win! He does not leave the tables in good time with his pocket full.

Precisely. 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 "I have been clever!

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

I never picked up my phone and called a bookmaker and bet on a baseball game from the clubhouse. Never.

Wall Street has become a veritable casino.

Establishing a 0.03 percent Wall Street speculation fee, similar to what we had from 1914-1966, would dampen the dangerous level of speculation and gambling on Wall Street, encourage the financial sector to invest in the productive economy and reduce the deficit by more than $350 billion over 10 years.

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.

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.

He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.

I used to work in a warehouse in Woodville North and we always used to take bets like most places do on Cup day... and I was lucky three years in a row. I always picked the right horse.

People 'demand' the opportunity to gamble away money they do not have, just like people 'demand' money from loan sharks at extortionate interest rates. This is a warped, empty type of freedom, in which the powerful are free to exploit the vulnerable.

All human activity suddenly seemed to me composed of such sport: We each chose the game we thought would yield the most for us and our own. We gambled, gambled selfishly, gambled more than we could afford, the odds staggeringly stacked in somebody else's favor.

I tried gambling and it never paid off, women make you suffer, and greed has no end...

Deja eso, chico, cuando no has apostado todos los caballos parecen el mismo.

Sueño que estoy jugando al póker. Nunca he jugado al póker, así que por supuesto pierdo.

Categories No. 1 and No. 2: Rolled-up trips and three cards to a low straight flush.

Category No. 3: Two aces with a low card.

Categories No. 4 and No. 5: Three small cards to a straight and two small cards with an ace.

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I've never bet in a casino; it's just not something I do.

Film line is all about chance. I don't think much, I just like to take chances.

'Atlantic City' is very good.

When the results weren't coming on the snooker table, I tried to supplement things by gambling on horses even more.

It's rare to find these true coin flip situations in Hold'em but surprisingly common in Omaha. That's one of the reasons why Omaha is the perfect game for action junkies who relish the notion of flipping coins for large sums of money.