Gambling Quotes - Page 3

Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.

I haven't had sex in eight months. To be honest, I now prefer to go bowling.

If, after the first twenty minutes, you don't know who the sucker at the table is, it's you.

You don't gamble to win. You gamble so you can gamble the next day.

I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.

No dog can go as fast as the money you bet on him.

It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.

Try to decide how good your hand is at a given moment. Nothing else matters. Nothing.

Gambling is not as destructive as war or as boring as pornography. It is not as immoral as business or as suicidal as watching television. And the percentages are better than religion.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

The only business in the world bigger than gambling is religion...but gambling is not nearly so corrupt.

Shallow men believe in luck.

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

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.

You start doing the addictive behavior to feel good and then your receptors get overloaded with dopamine, then you stop doing the addictive thing and some of the receptors have shut down and you don't have enough dopamine to feel good. So then you feel bad and go back to the addictive behavior to get more dopamine. The strange thing is that it works with what we think of as uppers and downers and whatever you call gambling - sidewaysers.

If you look around the table and you can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.

Our whole life is solving puzzles.

Stock-picking is like gambling: those who win well, seldom bet, but when they do, they bet heavily.

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.

I came to the conclusion long ago that all life is six to five against.

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.

I'm absolutely gonna win it, because I'm ruthless. I sit at the poker table and my job is to destroy people.

Bond didn't defend the practice. He simply maintained that the more effort and ingenuity you put into gambling, the more you took out.