Top 33 Quotes About Gambling And Winning
#1. Unfortunately, gambling and winning don't often go hand-in-hand.
Pete Rose
#2. The next best thing to gambling and winning is gambling and losing.
Nick Dandolos
#4. Gambling is so pervasive in Nevada that maybe the state should just go the whole hog. There'd be gum machines that dispensed chewing tobacco if you lost. You could gamble for the toilet paper in public bathroom stalls. And fill out Keno cards in an attempt to win cancer therapy at the hospital.
P. J. O'Rourke
#5. I thank God for Hip Hop because Marvin Gaye didn't have that and he was able to be that dope. For us to have that and more, I feel like it is up to us to be as dope as we can possibly be.
B.J. The Chicago Kid
#6. This was my first lesson about gambling: if you see somebody winning all the time, he isn't gambling, he's cheating. Later on in life, if I were continuously losing in any gambling situation, I would watch very closely.
Malcolm X
#7. Stock-picking is like gambling: those who win well, seldom bet, but when they do, they bet heavily.
Charlie Munger
#8. If I lose today, I can look forward to winning tomorrow, and if I win today, I can expect to lose tomorrow. A sure thing is no fun.
Leonard Marx
#9. Play interests me very much," said Hermann: "but I am not in the position to sacrifice the necessary in the hope of winning the superfluous.
Alexander Pushkin
#10. Most amusements only mean trying to win another person's money.
Rudyard Kipling
#11. Whether we assert our rights by sea, or attempt their maintenance by land whithersoever we turn ourselves, this phantom incessantly pursues us. Already has it had too much influence on the councils of the nation.
Henry Clay
#12. Gambling is a fascinating sport. When you are winning, you are like a human hurricane, nothing can stand in your way. You defy the Gods, or do you? In fact you impress them, as Bukowski said. When you are losing, you are an insignificant gimp.
Robert Black
#13. Yeah man, they call gambling a disease, but it's the only disease where you can win a bunch of money.
Norm MacDonald
#14. It's hard to walk away from a winning streak, even harder to leave the table when you're on a losing one.
Cara Bertoia
#15. 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.
Josh Brolin
#16. You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that rules, time is our gambling partner on the other side of the table and it holds all the cards of the deck in its hand, we have to guess the winning cards of life, our lives.
Jose Saramago
#17. To be rid of our individuality, which is our will, which is our effort- to live effortless, a kind of conscious sleep- that is very beautiful, I think- that is our after life- our immortality.
D.H. Lawrence
#18. If I lost all, at least I would have played for it. It had always been my philosophy that one must play, or be a loser two-fold.
Anna Freeman
#19. It's not easy being a father, but I've been allowed a comeback.
Alan King
#20. Gambling is part of the human condition. I love it. I have the best time gambling. I've been winning fortunes, and I've been losing them.
Jerry Lewis
#21. My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday.
G.K. Chesterton
#22. Everyone except gamblers knows that gambling never pays ... Losing, like winning, only increased his determination to play.
Firoozeh Dumas
#23. I don't like gambling very much. I don't like being at the mercy of those little white squares that roll around and decide whether you win or lose. I like to have the say-so myself.
Lawrence Tierney
#24. You're gonna lose some ball games and you're gonna win some ball games and that's about it.
Sparky Anderson
#25. I just went to Harvard a little while, because I graduated from Armstrong High School in Washington and then I went up there but I didn't stay that long because I went into show business.
Billy Eckstine
#26. If you mind losing more than you enjoy winning, don't bet.
Clement Freud
#27. The pain of losing is diverting. So is the thrill of winning. Winning, however, is lonelier, as those you've won money from are not likely to commiserate with you. Winning takes getting used to.
David Mamet
#28. Didn't I warn you-Huh-Didn't I tell you one of em was going to win!?? So now, what do we do?
Jack Norris
#29. I can double my density from three-sixty degrees to seven-twenty instantly.
Canibus
#30. Doesn't it seem to you," asked Madame Bovary, "that the mind moves more freely in the presence of that boundless expanse, that the sight of it elevates the soul and gives rise to thoughts of the infinite and the ideal?
Gustave Flaubert
#32. You can make a lot of speeches, but the real thing is when you dig a hole, plant a tree, give it water, and make it survive. That's what makes the difference
Wangari Maathai
#33. Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
