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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
"The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it.
Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion
for keeping roulette tables is unknown." -Bernard Shaw
"Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it
didn't work for the rabbit."-R. E. Shay
I believe in luck. The harder I work the luckier I get. – Sam Shoen
"The commonest mistake in history is underestimating your opponent;
happens at the poker table all the time." - General David Shoup
"Nobody is always a winner, and anybody who says he is, is
either a liar or doesn't play poker." -Amarillo Slim
“It never hurts for potential opponents to think you’re more than a little
stupid and can hardly count all the money in your hip pocket, much less hold
on to it..” - Amarillo Slim
"Gambling itself will only end when human nature has changed
completely and there are no more bets to win." -Harold S.
Smith Sr., I Want to Quit Winners
"How long does it take to learn poker, Dad?" "All your life, son."
David Spanier, "Total Poker" (1977)
There is no such thing as luck. - from Star Wars
"Limit poker is a science, but no-limit is an art. In limit, you are shooting at a
target. In no-limit, the target comes alive and shoots back at you."
Jack Strauss
"When we put 50 machines in, I consider them 50 more mousetraps.
You have to have a mousetrap to catch a mouse." -Bob Stupak,
former Las Vegas casino owner Noting his mother's visit to
Las Vegas the weekend before she died.
"I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand."
Jonathan Swift, "Thoughts on Various Subjects" (1728)
"The majority of casino players leave too much to chance when
playing in a casino. To put it bluntly, they don't have a
clue as to how to play." -Henry Tamburin, gambling author
Fortune favors the bold. - Terence 190-159 BC
“But when you're playing poker, you don't know the answer to that until after
the cards are laid down, and then it's too late” - Fred Thompson
"Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions
than in their science." - Henry David Thoreau
Everything in life is luck. - Donald Trump
"A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to us
than the 99 which we had to work for, and the money won at
Faro or in the stock market snuggles into our hearts in the
same way." -Mark Twain
"Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money
with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could
have borrowed his oar I would have stayed." Mark Twain
"He had the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces."
-Mark Twain
"Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a lifetime, but in a good many
cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her."
-Mark Twain
"There are few things that are so unpardonably neglected in our country as
poker. The upper class knows very little about it. Now and then you find
ambassadors who have sort of a general knowledge of the game, but the
ignorance of the people is fearful. Why, I have known clergymen, good men,
kind-hearted, liberal, sincere, and all that, who did not know the meaning of
a "flush". It is enough to make one ashamed of the species."- Mark
Twain
"It's hard work. Gambling. Playing poker. Don't let anyone tell you different.
Think about what it's like sitting at a poker table with people who’s only
goal is to cut your throat, take your money, and leave you out back talking to
yourself about what went wrong inside. That probably sounds harsh. But
that's the way it is at the poker table. If you don't believe me, then you're the
lamb that's going off to the slaughter." - Stu Unger, three-time WSOP
Champion
"See, in my world - the world of high-stakes gin and poker - we play for
cold, hard cash. It's all business, pure and simple. Anyone who thinks card
playing is a 'game' - I'll show you a loser. Money... M-O-N-E-Y. That's how
you measure success. One dollar at a time. One chip at a time. That's how
you keep score." - Stu Unger
I hope to break even this week. I need the money. -Veteran
Las Vegas Player
"If I had the money and the drinking capacity, I'd probably
live at a roulette table and let my life go to hell." -Michael
Ventura
The Wampanoag Tribe has a machine, and they say, "It's completely
idiot proof." I told them they've got it all wrong. I want
a machine that is "idiot friendly." Former Massachusetts Governor
William F. Weld
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck..
-Orson Welles
Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made
men.. - E.B. White
"Ace is not good, Ace is God." - William Wigstrom
Even though I had a lucrative contract with MGM, I had a husband who was
drinking and gambling our money away faster than I could make it.
Esther Williams
“I'm absolutely gonna win it, because I'm ruthless. I sit at the poker table and
my job is to destroy people” - James Woods
"In the queer messes of human destiny the determining factor
is luck. For every important place in life there are many
men of fairly equal capacities. Among them luck decides who
shall accomplish the great work, who shall be crowned with
Laurel, and who shall fall back into silence and obscurity."-William
E. Woodward
“Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house
and four people died.” - Steven Wright
"We got an education when in 1992 Wolfgang Puck opened Spago
in the Forum Shops in Caesars Palace and proved to us that
people will line up to get good food." -Steve Wynn
"There is a very easy way to return from a casino with a small fortune: go
there with a large one." - Jack Yelton
A problem gambler was urged by a counselor to take the 20-question
test for compulsive gambling. Upon completing it, the subject
commented; "Boy, Gamblers Anonymous must be hard up for new
members. They make qualifying so easy."
In Atlantic City, N.J., elderly gamblers got flu shots Monday
at Bally's Park Place ballroom while slot machines jangled
in the next room. Nurses said the shot could cause soreness
in their arms, but many replied they would work it out by
pulling the slot machine handle.
They were burying a high-roller in Las Vegas and a few of
his gambling cronies were gathered grave side when the minister
said; "Gus is merely sleeping." His best friend was heard
muttering: "I've got a hundred that says he's dead."
"Stop cheating!" the dealer told the card player. "I'm not!"
claimed the player. "You must be," said the dealer. "That
is not the hand that I dealt you."
"Why otherwise would that dignified fellow dressed like a
banker be sitting at a machine murmuring;
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