the over-under, is just another example of how the…

I am not one of the people who believe that the main reason why a chap becomes a bookmaker is because he is too…

— Noel Whitcomb

I don't believe bookmakers.

— Claudio Ranieri

I'll tell you what you can expect from an Irishman named Wellington whose father was a bookmaker. You can expect that anything he says…

— Wellington Mara

I'd seen all the great entertainers by the time I was 14 or 15. My mother was artistic. My father was a bookmaker, so…

— Lainie Kazan

I hadn't been in Vegas 20 minutes when I got word that the bookmakers were offering three to one that Frank wouldn't show for…

— Sammy Davis, Jr

A combination of the qualities of the scholar, the master cook, the painter, the gastronomer, the sportsman and the pantologist, assisted by the skill…

— George Ellwanger

In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and to keep them coming back. The longer they play, the more they…

— Robert De Niro

“It is impossible to make real progress in technology without gambling.”

— Freeman Dyson

And it´s so different for a lot of people I´ve known. One partner doesn´t love the other enough to stop drinking, or gambling, or…

— Alma Katsu

“My casino experience is to someone else their experience with their employer, of how the company has elected to behave solely for greed, profits,…

— John-Talmage Mathis

Taxpayers would likely be responsible for treating addicts

— John Warren Kindt

I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or…

— Omar Sharif

“The town will never be the same. After the Tangiers, the big corporations took it all over. Today it looks like Disneyland. And while…

— Sam Rothstein

I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had…

— Rupert Murdoch

Gambling has held human beings in thrall for millennia. It has been engaged in everywhere, from the dregs of society to the most respectable…

— Peter L. Bernstein