Welcome to our collection of Gambling Quotes! Whether you’re a seasoned gambler, a curious observer, or someone seeking a dose of wisdom and humor about the world of betting and chance, you’ve come to the right place. Gambling has been a part of human culture for centuries, evoking a wide range of emotions and experiences. From the thrill of victory to the agony of defeat, gambling offers a rich tapestry of quotes that reflect the essence of this captivating activity.
In this curated compilation, we’ve gathered some of the most insightful, humorous, and thought-provoking quotes about gambling from renowned authors, celebrities, and notable figures. These quotes capture the essence of risk-taking, luck, and the human fascination with games of chance. Whether you’re looking for inspiration, entertainment, or simply want to add a touch of style to your gambling-related projects, you’ll find a wealth of quotes on this topic below. So, feel free to copy them, use them to create striking images, or enhance them with stylish fonts to add a touch of flair to your endeavors. Enjoy exploring the world of gambling through the words of these insightful individuals!
My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow money from my fellow workmen to settle my room rent and pay for my meals. James Weldon Johnson
It’s like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don’t know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It’s like the throw of the dice. Jim Morrison
Gambling is legal and betting is legal, for what I bet. Michael Jordan
The President must stop gambling with taxpayers’ money and get the country back on the path of fiscal sanity. Tom Harkin
I’m not going to go back to gambling; I mean, it’s as simple as that. Pete Rose
Putting a stop to internet gambling is a necessary reform that targets flagrant violations of state and federal laws. John Shadegg
Part of it went on gambling, and part of it went on women. The rest I spent foolishly. George Raft
Establishing a 0.03 percent Wall Street speculation fee, similar to what we had from 1914-1966, would dampen the dangerous level of speculation and gambling on Wall Street, encourage the financial sector to invest in the productive economy and reduce the deficit by more than $350 billion over 10 years. Bernie Sanders
I hate casinos. I have zero interest in gambling. Maria Konnikova
Without gambling, I would not exist. Hunter S. Thompson
Our investigation has found that, unlike traditional fantasy sports, daily fantasy sports companies are engaged in illegal gambling under New York law, causing the same kinds of social and economic harms as other forms of illegal gambling and misleading New York consumers. Eric Schneiderman
In ‘Honeymoon in Vegas,’ after Nicolas Cage tells his fiancee that he’s given her away to pay for his gambling debts, she gets into a tizzy as if she were a 6-year-old. I couldn’t believe it. Allison Anders
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. Ambrose Bierce
Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces. Hunter S. Thompson
In the future you’re going to be able to go into a 7-Eleven and buy a ticket on a game, and people who don’t use gambling as often as others do, like the people who go and buy lottery tickets, there’s going to be more opportunity for people to do it. And with people casually gambling throughout the country, it’s going to generate a lot of money. Tim Donaghy
I’m not a big gambler anymore. I like to do it. I enjoy it instead of trying to make money off of it, because I realized you can’t make money gambling. John Daly
I used to have a gambling problem. Jeremy Kyle
The attraction in this city is money, from gambling. What you are if you work here is a shill. Joe Williams
For me, since I have a life wish, not a death wish, for me, I was not gambling my life. I was doing something much more beautiful. I was carrying my life across. Philippe Petit
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. Fisher Stevens
‘Prop trading’ is just a fancy term for banks gambling in the market for their own profit. Matt Taibbi
There is a respectable body of economic thought that holds that casino gambling is actually economically regressive to a state and a community. Mario Cuomo
Pre-teens, teens and college students have unlimited access to the Internet – 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Because of the repeated exposure they have to illegal Internet gambling sites, they fall victim by the thousands. Spencer Bachus
I’m a strange mixture of my mother’s curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother’s father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts. Rupert Murdoch
Part of the $10 million I spent on gambling, part on booze and part on women. The rest I spent foolishly. George Raft
Pachinko, like all gambling, is rigged. The house always wins. It’s a central metaphor of life. It’s rigged, but you keep playing. Min Jin Lee
A weekend in Vegas without gambling and drinking is just like being a born-again Christian. Artie Lange
To be honest, most of my troubles – bankruptcy, drinking, gambling – were self-inflicted. Jimmy White
Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized. William Inge
I wanted to do an episode about Chuck having a gambling problem. I wanted to portray my addiction on the show. But I think it’s a little edgy for Saturday night. Fisher Stevens
I go to Vegas now, and I’m in the casino, and I’m gambling, and there’s a guy in a wet bathing suit gambling right next to me. Sebastian Maniscalco
Shockingly, a University of Pennsylvania study says the number of young people addicted to gambling – largely due to increased exposure to the Internet and Internet gambling – grew by an alarming 20 percent between 2004 and 2005 alone. Spencer Bachus
Writing’s like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less. M. John Harrison
I didn’t want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling – more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it. Omar Sharif
I have fought addiction to gambling and provided the FA with a medical report about my problem. Joey Barton
Most of the energy in North America is just consuming – Wal-Mart, shopping centres, government offices – or personal consumption: houses, cars, flying to Hawaii, gambling in Las Vegas. We could live affluent lifestyles with half as much energy. Vaclav Smil
It’s been a difficult thing because some great opportunities have come and I’ve just been holding my breath and praying… I’m basically gambling hoping something will come along this season and if not, I don’t know what the future holds. Charisma Carpenter
Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It’s getting money without giving an equivalent for it. Henry Ward Beecher
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. Hunter S. Thompson
I like to play blackjack. I’m not addicted to gambling. I’m addicted to sitting in a semi-circle. Mitch Hedberg
I was re-watching ‘E.T.’ recently, and that scene where they’re all around the pizza, bringing the pizza in, and gambling and stuff together, it’s such an amazing tone, it’s so rough, and nobody’s really talking about anything, and it feels like you’re in that room with them. Colin Trevorrow
It is true that the Puritans banned all recreation on Sundays and all games of chance, gambling, bear baiting, horse racing, and bowling in or around taverns at all times. They did so, not because they were opposed to fun, but because they judged these activities to be inherently harmful or immoral. Leland Ryken
The world is like a reverse casino. In a casino, if you gamble long enough, you’re certainly going to lose. But in the real world, where the only thing you’re gambling is, say, your time or your embarrassment, then the more stuff you do, the more you give luck a chance to find you. Scott Adams
But I also think that it does create a lot of revenue, but to me it’s a temporary revenue stream because it’s an industry that, if suddenly gambling started in Massachusetts, then a lot of our patrons who would gamble in New Hampshire if we had it, would disappear. Craig Benson
The Chinese have always enjoyed gambling, and Macau is the only place in Greater China where gambling is legal. So I believe the government understands that there has to be a place for it. Lui Che Woo
Gambling has brought our family together. We had to move to a smaller house. Tommy Cooper
I never really had an itch for gambling. I work hard for my money, so I don’t like going out and giving it away like that. Amanda Righetti
When I was in high school, I had a gambling problem. Young Thug
I do not support gambling in this state. Craig Benson
Casino gambling is colorful and dramatic and theatrical. Steve Wynn
In gambling, you usually start to go wrong when you deviate from your pregame strategy. James Holzhauer
I would say, stay the hell away from the party scene. Anything you put in front of your goal, and especially something like that, whether it’s too much gambling, too much food, too much cold beers on the weekend – anything that you put in front of the prize is going to end up getting in the way and hurting you in the end. Brad Renfro
Games of chance often involve some amount of skill; this does not make them legal. Good poker players often beat novices. But poker is still gambling, and running a poker room – or online casino – is illegal in New York. Eric Schneiderman
Football was always a deal we made with ourselves. We adopted it for its brutality, which was embedded in a context that happened to be perfectly suited to television and to gambling, but which we could convince ourselves was only incidental to our enjoyment because it was only incidental to the game itself. Charlie Pierce
Who do you think I am, Pete Rose? I don’t bet. I come from a long line of compulsive gamblers. Gambling scares me. Mario Cantone
Buying a particular vintage because everyone tips it and then waiting for it to mature is like gambling. The thrill is in placing the bet. Once the race is run or the match is played, you’ll either win or lose. Until that happens, you’re caught in this wonderful, agonising sense of expectation. Kenneth Cranham
Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences. Vince Cable
Harvard Medical School, the University of South Florida and the American Psychiatric Association have all conducted studies showing that the earlier one begins gambling, the more likely it is he or she will become an addicted, problem gambler. Spencer Bachus
Cock-fighting, which has attained to the dignity of a literature of its own, is the popular Malay sport; but the grand sport is a tiger and buffalo fight, reserved for rare occasions, however, on account of its expense. Cock-fighting is a source of gigantic gambling and desperate feuds. Isabella Bird
We didn’t become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn’t come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn’t do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell. Barack Obama
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?’ Artie Lange
Yes, I think poker really isn’t gambling. Al Alvarez
Uncertainty doesn’t make life worth living, quite, but it does make striving and gambling worth attempting. Walter Kirn
The Miccosukee facility in Miami only offers bingo, poker, and video gambling machines. Because it does not have slot machines or table games, the Miccosukee tribe doesn’t need an agreement with the state. The Miccosukees only answer to the federal government. Rick Scott
Oh, it’s not really gambling when you never lose. Jennifer Aniston
Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today’s winners are tomorrow’s blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope. Hunter S. Thompson
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. Hunter S. Thompson
For me, I think that, certainly, the fact that Las Vegas has a gambling aspect to it is far overshadowed by the entertainment value, if you will, family appeal, that you have, the convention appeal. So it does not have disfavor with me, in my opinion, relative to being an NFL city. Jerry Jones
I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride. Hunter S. Thompson
I had worked in politics with Johnson and Nixon before becoming a historian and biographer. I kept discovering these dirtier, murkier threads in American politics that led back to Vegas’ gambling interests and criminal connections. Roger Morris
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. Kenneth C. Griffin
My father was a gambler. My father could not resist a casino or a card game. He loved gambling. Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
Yes, prudently invested contributions to the Social Security fund may bring greater dividends, but those contributions would also face a greater risk. It would be like gambling. We should not gamble with the investments and the future of the citizens of this land. Daniel Inouye
I’m not looking for sympathy. If there’s other footballers addicted to gambling, then maybe me speaking about my battle might help them. Kyle Lafferty
Sometimes a 3-1 favorite loses. That’s why they call it gambling, and that’s why they keep flipping over the cards. Richard Roeper
Along with my passion for horse breeding, I was a horse racing enthusiast… In 1974 I was elected as a committee member and subsequently as a steward of the Turf Club. I had a burning desire to clean up the sport, which had always carried the stigma of gambling and manipulation. Cyrus S. Poonawalla
I think the XFL has a good chance. With the way sports gambling is coming to be and the people they have running that league, I think Vince does not want to fail again. Pat McAfee
I will never be in the stock market. It’s just gambling. I’m a gambler, but I’ll gamble on the practicality of things. Jeremy Renner
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. T. Boone Pickens
I do not have a problem, I enjoy gambling, but I think people are trying to make it seem like I have a problem, because people really don’t know. Michael Jordan
In gambling we say you are ‘on tilt’ when your mood gets in the way of making your best decisions. And nobody plays well on tilt. James Holzhauer
Our review concludes that DraftKings’/FanDuel’s operations constitute illegal gambling under New York law. Eric Schneiderman
I drank for effect because I didn’t even like the taste. But the thoughts and feelings are all the same, when I talk to a gambling addict it’s exactly the same thoughts and feelings that I went through. The addict, in particular, is very complicated. Tony Adams
Experience has shown us that attempts to control the Internet will invariably fail. We should be instructed by the failed efforts of China to regulate political content, the efforts of America to regulate Internet gambling, or the efforts of Australia to regulate certain speech. By its very nature, the Internet will always resist such controls. Miriam Defensor-Santiago
We’re concerned how gambling and betting affects the NHL game and changes the perception of and challenges the integrity of the NHL game. Gary Bettman
Footballers are an easy target. They are offered big lines of credit. Every sport is vulnerable; it’s such a big gambling industry, and there are problems with syndicates in other countries. Gordon Taylor
Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of ‘speculation’; but which ought to be called Gambling. William Cobbett
Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something. Wilson Mizner
All kinds of gambling, from bingo to baccarat, are benign entertainment for most people, dangerously addictive to a few, and capable of breeding unwanted side effects for society. Jacob Weisberg
In fact, a University of Connecticut study showed that as many as three in four pre-teens and teens who are exposed to Internet gambling become addicted. Spencer Bachus
You shouldn’t have any betting in the locker room at all, whether it’s baseball or it’s horses. You can’t beat the horses. You can’t beat any kind of gambling because they have the odds. George Steinbrenner
One of the main reasons that the landscape of financial stuff in America is different is that gambling is illegal there. So there’s a kind of sport-like aspect to the American coverage of finance. John Lanchester
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
Big banks, highly leveraged casinos, do whatever they can to keep the cost of their gambling as cheap as possible. This means keeping interest rates as cheap as possible. Max Keiser
Remember this, folks – I am a Hillbilly, and I don’t always Bet the same way I talk. Good advice is one thing, but smart gambling is quite another. Hunter S. Thompson
There’s nothing more valuable than your freedom in your life. When you’re in the streets you’re gambling with that 24/7. If you don’t know that you’re just flat out dumb to me. Yo Gotti
I used to be a health-care investor a long time ago in the public markets. One thing I learned that we tried to apply here is that investing in small molecules, trying to invest in the next treatment, there’s an element of gambling to that. Bill Maris
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. Adebayo Akinfenwa
The 2006 federal Internet gaming statute is not ambiguous. It does not prohibit gambling on fantasy sports. Eric Schneiderman
There is no gambling like politics. Benjamin Disraeli
