Top 200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Criminals - Page 2

Don't you get the idea I'm one of those goddam radicals. Don't get the idea I'm knocking the American system.

People don't grow up to become thrill junkies - they're born like that.

On the golf course, playing cards, running to the casinos, betting on college and pro football, it keeps spilling over to the next step, the next step, the next step. I basically started giving people information that I was receiving in the locker room, injury reports.

I got nothing against the honest cop on the beat. You just have them transferred someplace where they can't do you any harm. But don't ever talk to me about the honor of police captains or judges. If they couldn't be bought they wouldn't have the job.

Every time a boy falls off a tricycle, every time a black cat has gray kittens, every time someone stubs a toe, every time there's a murder or a fire or the marines land in Nicaragua, the police and the newspapers holler 'get Capone.'

Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

Las Vegas turns women into men and men into idiots.

When you own something, you can call it what you want.

Lie down on the floor and keep calm.

A jail is just like a nutshell with a worm in it, the worm will always get out.

I truly believe that at some point they're going to have kiosks in every NBA arena, like they do at the airport when you get your boarding pass, so you can bet on the games.

I still see referees officiating based on names on the front and back of jerseys and not based on how the rules are written in the rule book.

If the president of the United States, if he's smart, if he needs help, he’d come. I could do a favor for the president

There are certain promises you make that are more sacred than anything that happens in a court of law, I don't care how many Bibles you put your hand on.

I am going to St. Petersburg, Florida, tomorrow. Let the worthy citizens of Chicago get their liquor the best they can. I'm sick of the job-it's a thankless one and full of grief. I've been spending the best years of my life as a public benefactor.

I wish I could turn back time. Unfortunately, I can't.

This American system of ours,call it Americanism,call it capitalism,call it what you will,gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

Most men I know, pissed away their fortunes. I'm the only one I know, that made a fortune pissin'

I never killed a guy who didn't deserve it.

A lot of people had to die for me to be me.

In this life all that I have is my word and my balls and I do not break them for nobody.

Mickey Cohen: New York, its like being a rat in a maze, everyone living on top of each other, but out here, I can breathe. I love Los Angeles.

Absolutely, when you talk about the embarrassment that I caused in 2007 for myself, my family, the NBA, it was embarrassing then, and it's as embarrassing now seeing it play out in a movie 10 years later. It's tough to watch it. Every time I watch it, I cringe through the whole thing.

I prefer to be in the grave in Colombia than in a jail cell in the United States.

I am sick and tired of publicity. I want no more of it. It puts me in a bad light. I just want to be forgotten.

The loudest one in the room is the weakest one in the room.

I'm not saying the games are fixed, because they are not. But they definitely program and train these referees to go out on the floor, and look for certain things, to put teams at advantages or disadvantages, based on who's up or down in the series.

Nixon wasn't really considered the president by the youth of America. He was considered to be a fraud and which he proved himself to be.

Obviously I bet on games I officiated. I passed on information based on the meetings that the referees were having, and based on what the league office wanted us to call in playoff games. With that being said, I was able to win at a high percentage when we were betting on NBA games.

We took care of Kennedy

I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War.

We're all gonna die, let's act accordingly.

I wanted to be a part of the NBA because I enjoyed the Sixers games when I was young.

I thought cocaine was a fantastic drug. A wonder drug, like everybody else. It gave you [an] energy burst. You could stay awake for days on end, and it was just marvelous and I didn't think it was evil at all. I put it almost in the same category as marijuana, only hell of a lot better. It was a tremendous energy boost. It gave the feeling, a high, but nobody knew, well maybe a small percentage of people knew. But eventually everybody knew how evil it really was.

I don't really need to bury the NBA. I just want the truth to be known about what I did and how I did it.

All empires are created of blood and fire.

Vote early and vote often.

They can't collect legal taxes from illegal money.

The only one that can do what I do is me. Lot of people had to die for me to be me. You wanna be me?

There are ways you can find people to help you market your company on the Internet. If you have the right people helping you, you can get the word out. Newspaper and TV ads are expensive. If you can get the word out through social media, that's a big advantage.

They've hung everything on me except the Chicago fire.

Now I know why tigers eat their young.

I rob banks for a living. What do you do?

We don't break our captains. We kill them.

I had the opportunity to run up and down the court with the greatest athletes in the world.

I'm a kind person, I'm kind to everyone, but if you are unkind to me, then kindness is not what you'll remember me for

Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.

Church wants you on your place. Kneel, stand, kneel, stand. If you go for that sort of thing, I don't know what to do for you. A man makes his own way. No one gives it to you. You have to take it. 'Non serviam'.

I'm an average nobody. I get to live the rest of my life like a schnook.

The big question on everyone's mind is, 'Did Tim Donaghy fix games?' The answer is no. I didn't need to fix them. I usually knew which team was going to win based on which referees had been assigned to the game, their personalities, and the relationships they had with the players and coaches of the teams involved.

It's mostly the coaches the refs don't like. Like Phil Jackson and Gregg Popovich. Jackson is a master at setting up refs, always telling them they're against his team, playing mind games.

Unlike stocks, where in our country, you go to sleep, everyone tells you everything is wonderful, you wake up and everything is gone.

I can replace things, but I could never replace my wife and kids.

I feel like we all make mistakes in life. Maybe mine was a little more public than others.

I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand.

I would rather be rich affluent and greedy and go to hell when I die, than live in poverty on this earth.

Even a fool gets to be young once.

I was snorting a lot of cocaine and I had lost myself to a great degree. A lot of people, everybody was starting to realize what the coke was all about and they were all starting to get lost.

Life passes most people by while they're making grand plans for it.

I'm Catholic, I'm conditioned to confess.