Gambling Quotes · Page 10

It's hard to walk away from a winning streak, even harder to leave the table when you're on a losing one.

— Cara Bertoia

...in his gambling, he had one besetting weakness -- faith in a system; and this made his damnation certain.

— Jack London

When I used to gamble, I looked for players with head covers on their irons. Those guys I could beat.

— Chi Chi Rodriguez

“No one knows how to gamble and win, that’s why they call it gambling.”

— Kathryn Smith

“But Lando was a gambler. A true gambler never folded when he still had cards left to play.”

— Timothy Zahn

I have fought addiction to gambling and provided the FA with a medical report about my problem.

— Joey Barton

A tough guy told me, "I'll bet you $10 you're dead." I was afraid to bet him.

— Henny Youngman

No reputable economist anywhere believes it's gambling an economic tool

— John Warren Kindt

I wanted Raging Bull. I wanted Casino. I got Rocky and Bullwinkle. But that's OK, because I still get to tell people…

— Rene Russo

Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is…

— William Cobbett

“Yes, I can understand that a man might go to gambling table - when he sees that all that lies between himself…

— Honore de Balzac

In fact, a University of Connecticut study showed that as many as three in four pre-teens and teens who are exposed to…

— Spencer Bachus

When I talk about drugs and alcohol, I'm talking about sex addiction, gambling addiction, eating addiction, throwing-up addiction. I'm not talking about…

— Abel Ferrara

“Performing magic in the live show thrills me. Just get me a deck of cards and some attentive audience, and I have…

— Amit Kalantri

Generally, traditional businesses were slow to recognize the way in which legalized gambling captured dollars from across the entire spectrum of the…

— John Warren Kindt

There would be economic disruption in Omaha from expanded gambling...You would just be moving Chernobyl closer to the population center

— John Warren Kindt

O sancta simplicitas! What strange simplification and falsification mankind lives on! One can never cease to marvel once one has acquired eyes…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I felt when I was gambling that the house always wins, and it was always like, how can I become the house?…

— Redfoo

We may gamble on outsmarting the law; we may even gamble on the leniency of man and the mercy of God-but no…

— Sidney Greenberg

“The more I wrote, the less I needed to play. Once I got started I couldn't stop. This was my salvation. Writing…

— Ted Heller

I realised how much misdirection is in stunt co-coordinating. It's similar to magic, the tricks we use to make people think the…

— Steve Truglia

Does the logic connect? What are the range of probably outcomes? You want to figure out what those probabilities are and ideally…

— Elon Musk

Las Vegas is a major family destination. Nevada casinos have become American family values now. It's considered just fine to go into…

— Bruce Sterling

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

— Rupert Murdoch

I know a little bit about handicapping. If the horse has an IV, you want to stay - away from it.

— Paula Poundstone

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

— John Warren Kindt

Many players will not improve because they cannot bear self-knowledge.

— David Mamet

A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Strive to be beyond what others perceive you to be, by striving beyond the limits of yourself.”

— Debbie Tosun Kilday

Life is like a gamble. You cant win every game. But if the chip is in your hands, you will always have…

— Anonymous

I never go looking for a sucker. I look for a Champion and make a sucker of of him.

— Amarillo Slim

Gambling addicts usually lose their focus at work and problem military gambling poses a national security threat

— John Warren Kindt

The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.

— Oliver Goldsmith

You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.

— John Ruskin

The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.

— Al Alvarez

Your addiction rate will go up if you have gambling in this area

— John Warren Kindt

I like gambling on stuff that you don't know anything about. That's when it's exciting.

— Artie Lange

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

— John Warren Kindt

If I'm going to spend money, I'd rather it be on a fabulous location or food, not gambling.

— Karren Brady

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

— Anonymous