Gambling Quotes (285 Quotes)

I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.

I was hanging back, but I saw when he had that pressure he tried to throw it short. I took a gamble and it worked out.

We are throwing the dice and taking a huge gamble, and we are gambling with the lives and future of generations not yet born, he added.

Harper Collins wanted to change it. They changed it about eight times. Too many cuss words. The whole book is not just about gambling, it's just life. A lot of good things, and a lot of bad things. It was kind of therapeutic talking about it. I'm 40, and it was cool to get one out now. And, hopefully, there'll be a sequel or a movie, maybe.

Now I ask you to make your sacrifice. Take a gamble. I took the plunge and I'm glad of it.

The Hollywood tabloids characterized her as a wild child of the '20s. I don't think they really drew any limits on how they would characterize her. I believe she had some gambling problems. It was mentioned in the Las Vegas papers at the time, and Rex would bail her out of those things. I think he really wanted to sustain the relationship and get her in a balanced emotional situation.

I think we have a certain amount of climate change locked into the system. Even if we stop burning fossil fuel, the atmosphere and the ocean are going to take a while to respond. It's a very tough question for society. We're taking a gamble. We don't know all the global consequences.

It is extremely important for individuals who may have a problem with gambling to have some place to go for treatment. It is good to raise awareness for problem gambling, but once you raise it, some of these people have no funds for treatment. It is so exciting Reno is getting this facility.

We knew going in that it would be a huge and expensive gamble, but I was getting so many negative vibes (from the Midwest League) in recent weeks. I would have had zero peace of mind if I had gone through with the deal.

I also feel very strongly that Procter Gamble's strategy is not going to be linked only to Procter Gamble. We will see other Dow-type companies that either have some economic sensitivity or a slowing of revenue growth start to announce restructurings.

I really wanted to take a gamble on a guy like this, with his athletic ability and being a defense-oriented middle infielder who I think can help us this year and in the future. He's still a young guy.

My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow money from my fellow workmen to settle my room rent and pay for my meals.

When everybody's positive, that's the time to get out, isn't it ... But I'm positive, too. This industry is hot, hot, hot, and the economy's going to get hotter. And even if it doesn't, people will still like to gamble.

The popularity of poker is absolutely phenomenal. It is head and shoulders over other types of college gambling.

We knew it was a gamble. The world had to see (the pairing) sooner or later.

It's a gamble to go up against a major media company, but the governor obviously feels he has no choice because the newspaper is going to chomp at him, anyway.

He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.

It was a big, big gamble, ... But it has been quite a stroke of business.

If I don't get control of my gambling, it's going to flat-out ruin me.

Life is a gamble. And I took a chance, man. And here I am, talkin' to you today, thirty years later, wondering what the hell I did in the first place

Internet gambling should be regulated ... I think it's ridiculous for the federal government to be passing laws that won't be supported.

Gambling is illegal in the U.S., and there are many different state laws regulating it, but all of the online gaming businesses are located overseas, where the government has no jurisdiction. How will this new law be enforced Will the government track the online activities of the millions of people involved in online gambling

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.

What we find with pathological gamblers is that they have this uncontrollable urge to gamble. Ideally, it would be nice to discover a drug that would reliably interrupt that urge.

Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble... to give way to hope, fear and greed.

The proclivity of Asian people to gamble is pretty staggering. People borrow from loan sharks and gamble with it.

Sometimes a 3-1 favorite loses. That's why they call it gambling, and that's why they keep flipping over the cards.

Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences.

Tribal-operated casinos have realized that that's a very good way to bring in traffic to their casinos. They're looking for people to come in and spend money on gambling, not just go to a concert.

No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.

It was more or less just an instinct thing, ... Seeing the situation, I just took a gamble. It might be a little bit out of the norm but every run against Randy is huge.

I like Rose as a person. He played with great passion. I think he made a tragic mistake. We all make mistakes. You forgive and you move on. But Rose made a tragic mistake in not telling the truth. That's a tough nut for Bud Selig to handle. It was a sickness with Rose. He'd go to the dog track and he'd bet two or three thousand dollars on the dog running. He loved the action. 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. if they get deep into you they're going to say, 'Do this or do that.'

It was probably our best defensive effort we've had all season. The energy level has been there before, but the discipline was there tonight. We didn't reach or gamble.

There is no telling how marriages and lives were saved and how many children were spared of the consequences of gambling because of the work I did, Now, if I had known then what I know now, I would not have done that work.

I don't care if people gamble. But I would prefer it if the state were not involved. If we do get involved, let's do it right.

We've never really seen that strong of a level of support for gambling in the Southwestern part of the state. I don't think the city will have much of a love affair with gambling.

Everyone else seemed to think it was a gamble buying him but we didn't. He's got great technique, fantastic ability and he handles pressure. He's a wonderful player who's only going to get better and better.

We let it slip and it's hard to get a handle on exactly how it did slip. We got the first goal, and then going into the third 2-2 it's anyone's game. But you can't gamble. You have to play percentage hockey and do things right. We got a little lazy and they got the momentum.

He violated the Michigan gambling law that which regulates the use of gaming and casinos in the state. Essentially, by being on his computer placing a bet and gambling while in the state of Michigan, he went against Michigan statute, which regulates and controls gambling.

The message that playing poker for charity sends is that in the name of charity or other worthy causes, gambling is a way to compensate, to raise revenues for whatever the cause may be.

Anything is a gamble when you come out with a new product, If you don't take care of your most popular product and innovate it, somebody else is going to take it away from you.

If you find someone who makes it their end all and be all of the next two weeks, if they can't focus on anything else then it could continue to (trouble) gambling. There are warning signs and that's something to look at with March Madness.

Finance can only be understood as a gambling game, and gambling games can only be understood as a form of finance. Many people have no trouble accepting the first part They believe Wall Street is a big casino. When New York introduced off-track betting in 1971, it chose the slogan 'If you're in the stock market, you might find this a better bet,'

People are going to continue to drink. They're going to continue to smoke. They're going to continue to gamble.

Crime has always been a problem in illegal gambling, and people prey on those gamblers because they know most of them won't go to the police if they get robbed. Gambling involves cash, and that tends to attract criminals.

The people involved in illegal gambling are often doing other things besides the gambling. And that's what makes it so distasteful.

The whole game was frustrating for me, ... It was an ugly game, but it was a 'W.' Guys stepped up and hit big shots. ... I tried to be a nuisance on defense. I felt like it was an opportunity to go after it (against Crawford), especially down the stretch. I knew he wasn't passing, so I took a gamble.

It is always a gamble when you take young players. I believe his attitude is what I expect for a young player - but the rest of it is a gamble.

The industry is content with the spread of gambling to date. Now, they just want more facilities (in jurisdictions where gambling already is legal.

I have no problem with a tribe and the governor's office negotiating duration of a contract. To talk about more gambling devices or new locations for gambling, I think, is something for the Legislature.