Gambling Quotes

"The rulers of the country generally believed that betting eliminates strikes. Men had to work in order to gamble."

-Michael Ondaatje, Running the Family
"Your best chance to get a Royal Flush in a casino is in the bathroom."

-VP Pappy (A crusty old sage that still roams the Green Felt Jungles in Detroit)
"The racetrack is a place where windows clean people."

-VP Pappy
"If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky?"

-Stanislaw J. Lec
"The smarter you play, the luckier you'll be."

-Mark Pilarski
"Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind."

-Thomas Jefferson
Accordingly, he kept meticulous records of his backgammon and card winnings.
"I am now eased in my finances and replenished in my wardrobe."

-Andrew Jackson after winning a horse race.
"I love Vegas. God knows that I know how to find my way around the buffets in Las Vegas."

-Rick Majerus, Utah Utes college basketball coach
A problem gambler was urged by a counselor to take the 20-question test for compulsive gambling. Upon completing it, the subject commented; "Boy, Gamblers Anonymous must be hard up for new members. They make qualifying so easy."
A Smith & Wesson beats four aces.




"The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket."

- Kin Hubbard
"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson.
I hope to break even this week. I need the money.

-VETERAN LAS VEGAS GAMBLER
"Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a lifetime, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her."

-Mark Twain
"The only difference between a winner and a loser is character."

- Nick the Greek
"It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck."

- Joseph Conrad
"We got an education when in 1992 Wolfgang Puck opened Spago in the Forum Shops in Caesars Palace and proved to us that people will line up to get good food."

-Steve Wynn
"But, Steve, if you bring back a $3.49 prime rib buffet, you'll have lines out the casino front door and down Las Vegas Blvd."

-Mark Pilarski
This quote crossed my desk this week from a reader. Those of you with the same passion and affliction for betting motor sports as I might enjoy it.
"Race fans, I had inferred from my one trip to the Brickyard 400, fell into one of two categories: tattooed, shirtless, sewer-mouthed drunks, and their husbands."

- Steve Ruchin, Sports Illustrated
"I believe in luck. How else can you explain the success of those you dislike?"