Gambling Quotes

Yes, prudently invested contributions to the Social Security fund may bring greater dividends, but those contributions would also face a greater risk. It would be like gambling. We should not gamble with the investments and the future of the citizens of this land.
Daniel Inouye

You shouldn't have any betting in the locker room at all, whether it's baseball or it's horses. You can't beat the horses. You can't beat any kind of gambling because they have the odds.
George Steinbrenner

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"The typical gambler might not really understand the probabilistic nuances of the wheel or the dice, but such things seem a bit more tractable than, say, trying to raise a child in this lunatic society of ours."

-Arthur S. Reber, The New Gambler 's Bible

"In the queer mess of human destiny the determining factor is luck. For every important place in life there are many men of fairly equal capacities. Among them luck decides who shall accomplish the great work, who shall be crowned with laurel, and who shall fall back into silence and obscurity."

-William E. Woodward
Nine gamblers could not feed a single rooster.

-Yugoslav proverb
"Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit."

-R. E. Shay
"A gambler with a system must be, to a greater or lesser extent, insane."

-George Augustus Sala (1828-95) English writer and journalist
"Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing from something."

-Wilson Mizner
"I am sorry I have not learned to play cards. It is very useful in life. It generates kindness and consolidates society."

-Samuel Johnson
"In the case of an earthquake hitting Las Vegas, be sure to go straight to the keno lounge. Nothing ever gets hit there."

-An anonymous casino boss
"Remember this: The house doesn't beat the player. It just gives him the opportunity to beat himself."

-Nicholas (Nick the Greek) Dandalos
"You know what luck is? Luck is believing you're lucky...to hold front position in this rat-race you've got to believe you're lucky."

-Stanley Kowalski, A Streetcar Named Desire
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"The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet."

-Grantland Rice
"Don't gamble the rent money or you'll land up sleeping on the park bench."

-Capt. Summer Fun, Ret.
"Blackjack is the only casino game an amateur can learn to play and at which he can definitely win."

-Lawrence Revere, author, Playing Blackjack as a Business
"Gambling is the future on the internet. You can only look at so many dirty pictures."

-Simon Noble, an Austrian-based internet bookmaker
"When we put 50 machines in, I consider them 50 more mousetraps. You have to have a mousetrap to catch a mouse."

-Bob Stupak, former Las Vegas casino owner
Noting his mother's visit to Las Vegas the weekend before she died. "She got to go to heaven four days early."