Gambling Quotes - Page 17

Who do you think I am, Pete Rose? I don't bet. I come from a long line of compulsive gamblers. Gambling scares me.

Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or other make a Venus-cast: now and then he indeed will make it twice and even thrice in succession. Are we going to be so feebleminded then as to aver that such a thing happened by the personal intervention of Venus rather than by pure luck?

Somebody tell my fam I got a gambling problem.

Hold'em - like life itself - has its defining moment. It's the flop. When you see the flop, you're looking at 71 percent of your hand, and the cost is only a single round of betting.

No use gambling if you can't lose your head once in a while.

I think gambling can be a good thing if you don't take it too seriously. Take it and have fun with it, and don't lose what you can't afford to lose.

I think a lot of people like to gamble, and they don't want to go to the casino to gamble. Sometimes they want to do it in the privacy of their home. They can't concentrate the way they want to in a gambling casino.

Taxpayers would likely be responsible for treating addicts

What we really need is a federal intervention plan, which calls for a moratorium on gambling in the U.S.

Actually, they should just roll it all back get rid of gambling...It destabilizes the U.S. economy

Gambling is a bad deal for taxpayers

And as far as jobs go, for every one job that the casino creates, one is lost in the 35-mile feeder market

The lightning spread of 'Western-style' gambling overseas has increased the problems of addicted and problem gamblers, organized crime and alleged corruption in Asia and the Middle East

It's time to wipe the slate clean, recriminalize gambling, just like we did in this country 100 years ago

Although crime and corruption decreases within a one-mile radius of a casino, it increases 10 percent within a 35-mile radius by the third year the casino is open.

If you want your 401k to come back, recriminalize gambling

A 1999 report by a bipartisan federal panel on gambling concluded the United States should put a hold on further casinos until it is clear what the impact is on America

Gambling interests hire lots of economists to do impact studies, but what you need is cost-benefit analysis, and you'll never see the industry finance those

Generally, traditional businesses were slow to recognize the way in which legalized gambling captured dollars from across the entire spectrum of the various consumer markets, but now they know

Casinos don't bring business except for the gambling boys

No reputable economist anywhere believes it's gambling an economic tool

If the government wants to stimulate the economy, it should outlaw gambling

The gambling industry has a tendency to find public figures ... and these persons are used for their public image. These people generally come in for a couple of years and then they sell out and it's 100 percent owned by out-of-state interests

People will spend a tremendous amount of money in casinos, money they normally would spend on refrigerators or a new car. Local businesses will suffer because they'll lose consumer dollars to casinos.

It's lose, lose for the taxpayer