All good professional gamblers are selectively aggressive.

“When you understand what’s involved in winning, as do professional gamblers, you’ll tend to bet more during a winning streak and less during a…

— Tharp, Van

I think there's a lot of trust in being selectively aggressive I guess. Looking for your pitch you can drive, but not swinging if…

— Alex Bregman

“Choices whose outcomes matter even though they are neither deterministic nor completely random surround us all the time. So it is not surprising that…

— David Christian

I think that's why gamblers get so bad, being online. It makes it so easy. I don't have any online accounts, I never have.

— Kyle Lafferty

I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people - being always excited.

— Lord Byron

I am not surprised that there are gambling houses, like so many snares laid for human avarice; like abysses where many a man's money…

— Jean de la Bruyere

“That was the reason the casino bothered to list the wheel’s most recent spins: to help gamblers to delude themselves.”

— Michael Lewis

Nations, like individuals, cannot become desperate gamblers with impunity. Punishment is sure to overtake them sooner or later.

— Charles Mackay

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice.

— Charles Caleb Colton

The real things to know is that folks will stand to lose more than they will to win. That’s the most important percentage there…

— Puggy Pearson

“Prior to the seventeenth century the laws of probability were defined by the intuition and experience of gamblers,”

— Anonymous

Thirty-seven percent of gamblers dip into their savings to fulfill their habit

— John Warren Kindt

This is an industry that generates addicted gamblers and they are desperate to get money

— John Warren Kindt

27 percent to 55 percent of casino revenues come from problem or pathological gamblers

— John Warren Kindt

In gambling, you usually start to go wrong when you deviate from your pregame strategy.

— James Holzhauer