America Quote by Timothy L. O'Brien

Baseball is a little bigger gamble than most, and the stakes are pretty high.

— Jacob Ruppert

One of the main reasons that the landscape of financial stuff in America is different is that gambling is illegal there. So there's a…

— John Lanchester

There is in Hollywood, as in all cultures in which gambling is the central activity, a lowered sexual energy, an inability to devote more…

— Joan Didion

Major league baseball is about the history of the game. Baseball history is so important. It's so much more than money.

— Joe Torre

Gambling has a zero-sum economic effect in its market and, like legalizing cocaine, the socio-economic costs of legalizing gambling overwhelm the benefits

— John Warren Kindt

Baseball has all the money.

— Brett Hull

Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.

— Herbert Hoover

The socio-economic impact of gambling addiction is comparable to drug and alcohol addiction

— John Warren Kindt

Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game - it, and high taxes.

— Will Rogers

Baseball was my goal from a young age, but gambling had significantly fewer barriers to entry.

— James Holzhauer

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

I first got into gambling because it was a way for me to leverage my love of baseball statistics. For the first few years,…

— James Holzhauer