There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.
I'll tell you how to beat the gambling in Las Vegas. When you get off the airplane, walk right into the propeller.
If I were a gambling man I would put all my money on there not being anything other than this universe.
There is a respectable body of economic thought that holds that casino gambling is actually economically regressive to a state and a community.
State-sponsored gambling produces no product, no new wealth, and so it makes no genuine contribution to economic development
A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated.
I used to go to Vegas and play the horses, and then I realised how ridiculous that was. There is no winning in gambling, but there is on the stock market.
When the results weren't coming on the snooker table, I tried to supplement things by gambling on horses even more.
You know, there's a 12 step program for gambling. You should look into that. Twelve steps. Coyote laughed. I'll bet I can do it in six.
Judged by the dollars spent, gambling is now more popular in America than baseball, the movies, and Disneyland-combined.
I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis.
Trading is more or less like betting or gambling, but only without the pleasure show of the game.
Who do you think I am, Pete Rose? I don't bet. I come from a long line of compulsive gamblers. Gambling scares me.
Personally I don't think day traders are speculating, because traditional speculation requires some market knowledge. They are, instead, gambling, which doesn't.
I don't think there's an improvised word in the movie. I hope not because I admire writing. Improvising is kind of gambling. It's just that you're standing up.
The President must stop gambling with taxpayers' money and get the country back on the path of fiscal sanity.
I tell ya, gambling never agreed with me. Last week I went to the track and they shot my horse with the opening gun.
You know you have a gambling problem when it's 4 A.M. at the Mirage Sports Book and you're walking around going, 'Hey you get the lacrosse scores?'
I spoke to the Sporting Chance clinic and I was seeing a guy in London every one or two weeks for an hour-long meeting about my gambling.
A weekend in Vegas without gambling and drinking is just like being a born-again Christian.
Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today's winners are tomorrow's blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope.
Gambling drains the economy by taking money away from grocery stores and retail businesses and putting it in the hands of an industry that produces no product
I think that gambling is a synthetic experience and that if you have any balls you gamble with your life. I have. So can everybody else.
You know what's sad about this? Not the gambling, but the best way to reach college athletes is the Cartoon Network.
Every video [slot] gambling machine takes $60,000 out of the consumer economy
The worst problem I've probably had was the gambling - you can do your money in the bookies a lot quicker than you can do it in the pub.
It's time to wipe the slate clean, recriminalize gambling, just like we did in this country 100 years ago
There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother's milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won't be any winners.
I want people to understand, gambling is not a bad thing if you do it within the framework of what it's meant to be, which is fun and entertaining.
I'm not looking for sympathy. If there's other footballers addicted to gambling, then maybe me speaking about my battle might help them.
I knew it was wrong, but I thought gambling was a venial sin. That's why I didn't confess it to a priest until after I was caught.
Playing to a stadium is not for everyone because you are essentially gambling, big-time. You have to go all in on production. You can't hold back.
Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
I went through a period when I was addicted to gambling. It was a compulsion that I struggled to get to grips with. By 1990, it was in danger of ruining my life.
Our review concludes that DraftKings'/FanDuel's operations constitute illegal gambling under New York law.
Everyone except gamblers knows that gambling never pays. ... Losing, like winning, only increased his determination to play.
If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog.
'Something Borrowed' was initially titled 'Rolling the Dice,' but my editor said it sounded like a men's gambling memoir.
There is no such thing as 'social gambling.' Either you are there to cut the other bloke's heart out and eat it -- or you're a sucker. If you don't like this choice -- don't gamble.
Nearly everything that was fun, of course, was also a little dangerous: riding roller coasters, skydiving, gambling, sex.
The contemporary casino is more than a gambling destination: it is a multifarious pleasure enclosure intended to satisfy every member of the family unit.
Gambling is entertainment... Financial markets, what one often refers to as speculation, is really the force by which we move capital to the best and highest use.
The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organsie gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.
I don't believe in alcohol. It's a sort of a medicinal necessity for the human condition, none of that stuff. I'm not a gambling man.
There is a lure in power. It can get into a man's blood just as gambling and lust for money have been known to do
The 2006 federal Internet gaming statute is not ambiguous. It does not prohibit gambling on fantasy sports.
Nevada has a very dynamic economy, with gambling being the number-one industry, followed closely by blood donorship.
I'm the leader of the platoon and I run gambling and lotteries, dances and I sell beer illegally. I'm a con man and I'm thoroughly lovable.
Gambling has held human beings in thrall for millennia. It has been engaged in everywhere, from the dregs of society to the most respectable circles.
A study in Illinois in the mid-1990s found that 65 percent of businesses were hurt by the proximity of gambling
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.
If I had been busted for drugs instead of gambling, I'd still be managing the Reds and baseball would be paying for my rehab.
Putting a stop to internet gambling is a necessary reform that targets flagrant violations of state and federal laws.
The military should get rid of video gambling devices on nearly 100 overseas bases and posts
For every three machines, you lose two jobs out of the surrounding economy because people are dumping their money on gambling
The real loss by gambling is $180,000 to the consumer economy for each slot machine
Granted, I could go out and lose everything (by) gambling and drinking, but there's no sense in denying it. It's in my blood.
But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.
Football and gambling - two great American addictions working together. What could possibly go wrong?
If you want to gamble, so be it, but when it gets to the stage where gambling is the only thing you are thinking of and it is affecting your life, that's when you need to put a hold on it.
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