Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

Gamble until you die. I do not really care.

He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"--the cry of a gambler, the cry of the great general, the compulsive cry that has ruined more men than it has ever saved.

When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.

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?'

The hope that people walk into poker halls with and the despair they leave with was something I researched by actually visiting these poker halls.

As soon as you tell me to do one thing, I do the opposite. As soon as someone tells me not to get any more tattoos, I have this intense fire burning inside me to cover myself with them. I don't care if it's self-destructive. I just have that need to rebel.

My father was a gambler. My father could not resist a casino or a card game. He loved gambling.

I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.

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

One thing I have learned in my painful career as a gambler is that bragging when you get lucky and win a few games will plunge you into gloom and unacceptable beatings very soon. It happens every time.

Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.

I'm a gambler at heart. That's my life.

I wouldn't see myself as a gambler.

Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.

Without gambling, I would not exist.

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

I must learn to love the fool in me - the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries.

I've been in Vegas. That's where you get into the money thing. Boy, you get greedy in Vegas, you know. That's the only place that you can bet $25, get it up to $500 and refuse to quit.

I do love to gamble; I hate to admit it.

I can't stop myself from finding information that makes me mad and writing about it.

My favorite characters are always the unpredictable ones, and with Domino, you literally never know which way the dice are going to roll.

I went broke after sophomore year, gambled away all my money, sold some guns, turned $750 into $10,000, flew to Vegas, turned ten thou into $187,000.

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

High stakes, low stakes, poor or rich - people will find a way to gamble.

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.