Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

People who don't gamble aren't worth talking to.

What I like about 'Lay the Favourite' is that it shows gambling as a profession, as this real grind-it-out job, with no glamour about it at all.

I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people - being always excited.

I don't play golf competitively. I tell everybody that I cheat so they won't gamble with me. That's why you can't watch football. Everybody's gambling. They don't want to watch the game; they watch the spread.

I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.

Why do people play the lottery, or why do people gamble, period? You know, it's with the hope of winning something more.

I'm not going to go back to gambling; I mean, it's as simple as that.

If you spend a week at a casino you will very easily see that people have a certain way of behaving in a casino.

When I first came to do shows in Vegas, I followed the usual entertainer's syndrome - I played craps and lost.

No wife can endure a gambling husband; unless he is a steady winner.

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.

I lost $35,000 in less than a week at the Mirage in Las Vegas.

I've always been aware that the image you patiently construct for an entire career can be ruined in a minute. It scares you a bit, but that's the way things are.

Who do you think I am, Pete Rose? I don't bet. I come from a long line of compulsive gamblers. Gambling scares me.

I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.

Slot machine revenue may briefly fatten the State’s bottom line, but slots do this by hurting the local economy…. Choking traffic, violent crime, and petty larceny always follow wherever gambling has been implemented.

If gambling in general is a dumb bet, then gambling on the Internet is a very dumb bet.

Gambling is the only addiction that the government promotes.

I got into gambling when I was playing a casino. I was a hermit in those days. I would go onstage, go to my room, or if we had to travel, I'd get in a car or a plane, whatever. But I didn't do anything. One day, this friend of mine said, 'Do you want to play some blackjack?'

We're concerned how gambling and betting affects the NHL game and changes the perception of and challenges the integrity of the NHL game.

I think sometimes celebrities can hurt a candidate. You don't want people to judge them on your last project.

I've made $50 million over the years as a movie star, if you'll pardon the expression, and I've given most of it to the bookies.

I've been gambling since the age of 12. Horses, dogs, dice, roulette, you name it.

The real reason why I don't play in many big cash games is because I can't stomach the thought of losing $100,000 or more in any given session. If I play three consecutive days at the Bellagio, I might win two days but lose big on the third. Really, who needs the agony of losing that much money? Not me.

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.