Gambling Quotes - Page 22

• Losers walking around with money in their pockets are always dangerous, not to be trusted. Some horse always reaches out and grabs them.

  Bill Barich

  Horse, Pockets, Loser

  Bill Barich (2015). “Laughing in the Hills: A Season at the Racetrack”, p.211, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Judged by the dollars spent, gambling is now more popular in America than baseball, the movies, and Disneyland-combined.

  Timothy L. O'Brien

  Baseball, America, Dollars

  Timothy L. O'Brien (1998). “Bad Bet: The Inside Story of the Glamour, Glitz, and Danger of America's Gambling Industry”, Crown Business

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• I gamble with one foot pointed toward the door.

  Frank Scoblete

  Doors, Feet, Gamble

  Frank Scoblete (2010). “Cutting Edge Craps: Advanced Strategies for Serious Players”, p.16, Triumph Books

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• To play billiards well is the sign of a misspent youth.

  Herbert Spencer

  Play, Billiards, Youth

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• Deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Honesty, Lasts, Privacy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1122, Library of America

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• You're gonna lose some ball games and you're gonna win some ball games and that's about it.

  Sparky Anderson

  Winning, Games, Balls

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• The world is more than a game of cards. History is more than a record of gambling operations.

  Arthur Twining Hadley

  Success, Games, Cards

  Arthur Twining Hadley (1807). “Baccalaureate Addresses, and Other Talks on Kindred Themes”, p.54

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• To play billiards well was a sign of an ill-spent youth

  Herbert Spencer

  Play, Billiards, Youth

  Quoted in Duncan Life and Letters of Spencer, ch.20. Robert Louis Stevenson has also been credited with this observation.

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• If you are going to bluff, make it a big one.

  Amarillo Slim

  Competition, Conflict, Negotiation

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

  Paula Poundstone

  Horse, Want, Littles

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• Two-up is Australia's very own way of parting a fool and his money.

  Germaine Greer

  Two, Australia, Way

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• To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never face the facts.

  Ruth Gordon

  Giving Up, Luck, Littles

  Ruth Gordon (1971). “Myself Among Others”

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• Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Tables, Superstitions, Gaming

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Kentish (1999). “Notes from the Underground, and The Gambler”, p.140, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25 to 100 per cent.

  Agnes Smedley

  Sports, Squash, Months

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• I'm an ambitious person. I mean, if I did that... I would self-destruct, in the sense that the decadence would be too strong an attraction for me. Whether that be in the form of gambling, fast cars, alcohol, drugs, whatever it happens to be... I think the lure of that lifestyle would be too strong.

  James Packer

  Strong, Mean, Thinking

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• Trading is more or less like betting or gambling, but only without the pleasure show of the game.

  William C. Brown

  Games, Pleasure, Trading

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• I would say, stay the hell away from the party scene. Anything you put in front of your goal, and especially something like that, whether it's too much gambling, too much food, too much (sic) cold beers on the weekend - anything that you put in front of the prize is going to end up getting in the way and hurting you in the end.

  Brad Renfro

  Hurt, Party, Beer

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Establishing a 0.03 percent Wall Street speculation fee, similar to what we had from 1914-1966, would dampen the dangerous level of speculation and gambling on Wall Street, encourage the financial sector to invest in the productive economy and reduce the deficit by more than $350 billion over 10 years.

  Bernie Sanders

  Wall, Years, Levels

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is something in people; you might even call it a little bit of a gambling instinct… I tell people investing should be dull. It shouldn't be exciting. Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.

  Paul Samuelson

  Vegas, People, Dull

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• We're gambling on our vision, and we would rather do that than make "me too" products. Let some other companies do that. For us, it's always the next dream.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Dream

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.87, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Our whole Depression was brought on by gambling, not in the stock market alone but in expanding and borrowing and going in debt... all just to make some easy money quick.

  Will Rogers

  Debt, Great Depression, Easy

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• Night and day a picture of the showcase of the Lame Novelty Company and its gambling content would seem to appear before my eyes. Then I realized that I could not rest content and continue practising to become a magician until I knew what those gambling gimmicks in that showcase click.

  John Scarne

  Eye, Night, Gimmicks

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• The gambling supply house catalog is distinctly not the safest place to learn about cheating devices, beware of catalog men.

  John Scarne

  Cheating, Men, House

  John Scarne (1980). “Scarne on dice”, Random House Value Pub

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• I am not surprised that there are gambling houses, like so many snares laid for human avarice; like abysses where many a man's money is engulfed and swallowed up without any hope of return; like frightful rocks against which the gamblers are thrown and perish.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Rocks, House

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• Las Vegas is a society of armed masturbators/gambling is the kicker here/sex is extra/weird trip for high rollers ... house-whores for winners, hand jobs for the bad luck crowd.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Jobs, Sex, Las Vegas

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.41, Vintage

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