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Quotes About Gambling

No wife can ever endure a gambling husband unless he is a steady winner.
~ Houston Post-Dispatch, 1924
In the case of an earthquake hitting Las Vegas, be sure to go straight to the Keno Lounge — nothing ever hits there.
~ Author Unknown
A pack of cards is the devil's prayer-book.
~ German proverb
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Gambling was a chickenshit obsession. The big thrill was the risk of self-annihilation and the shot at transcendence through money. Sex obsession was love six times or six thousand times removed. Both compulsions mortified. Both compulsions destroyed. Gambling was always about self-abnegation and money. Sex was a stupid glandular disposition and sometimes the route to big bad love.
~ James Ellroy
Ultimately, the issue is not whether you are pro- or anti-sports betting. You begin, from my standpoint, from the premise that it is going to continue to exist, and if it is going to continue to exist, should it be shoved underground, or should it be regulated?
~ Adam Silver
I made the choice to go into the world of underground poker.
~ Molly Bloom
Las Vegas turns women into men and men into idiots.
~ Bugsy Siegel
I must have gone through $10 million during my career. Part of the loot went for gambling, part for horses and part for women. The rest I spent foolishly.
~ George Raft
Money, horse racing and women: three things the boys just can't figure out.
~ Will Rogers
The people at Barstool Sports are a bunch of average Joes, who like most guys love sports, gambling, golfing and chasing short skirts.
~ Dave Portnoy
My source of income is sports betting. I have some investments also.
~ James Holzhauer
Delaware is the only state east of the Rockies that is allowed under federal law to offer sports betting.
~ Jack Markell
I bet sports all the time and very rarely get in a spot where someone offered me even money on something I'm going to get right five out of six times.
~ James Holzhauer
I learned to bet the Red Sox, the Celtics, Suffolk Downs. I thought it was a glorious life - pull up to the doughnut shop, spread out, and plan your day.
~ Alex Rocco
We won't look at New Orleans, St. Louis or Memphis again without thinking about making 'Mississippi Grind.' We have a lot of memories.
~ Ryan Fleck
Casino games such as roulette, blackjack, baccarat, slot machines and so on, are stacked in favour of the house.
~ Victoria Coren Mitchell
Playing to a stadium is not for everyone because you are essentially gambling, big-time. You have to go all in on production. You can't hold back.
~ Matt Bellamy
Premium hands are simply few and far between when large pots are at stake.
~ Daniel Negreanu
I used to sports gamble a lot and I was getting killed on that but then I found poker and really enjoyed it. But it was a hobby more than anything else. I played it every day but only on pretty small stakes.
~ Chris Moneymaker
As a gambler, I hold myself to an especially high standard of honor, and it disgusts me when people try to cheat at games.
~ James Holzhauer
I'll play any man from any land any game he can name for any amount he can count…Provided I like it!
~ Puggy Pearson
Man, I really like Vegas.
~ Elvis Presley
There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it
~ Andrew Carnegie