Nikolai Gogol Quotes

Unfortunately, gambling and winning don't often go hand-in-hand.

I've always played cards. I can't remember when there wasn't a gambling game going on somewhere, even if it was a craps game in a wheelbarrow on the backside of the racetrack.

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.

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

I don't play. I'm a terrible gambler. I don't know half the rules, and I'm not really patient enough to sit through hours of gaming.

I just love poker players.

I hate casinos. I have zero interest in gambling.

I was mad-keen on poker as a kid. It was like the snooker, pulling me into that same smokey atmosphere I loved.

May the flop be with you.

The first thing I know, I'm in a card game. Then I'm in a crap game.

My lucky number is four billion. That doesn't come in real handy when you're gambling. "Come on, four billion! Darn! Seven. Not even close. I need more dice."

I'm not a gambler, let's just say that, nor have I ever been a dealer at a casino.

I'm the first person in my family to play poker.

I'm not a crazy Vegas guy. I'm not a gambler.

Sometimes a 3-1 favorite loses. That's why they call it gambling, and that's why they keep flipping over the cards.

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

The beautiful thing about poker is that everybody thinks they can play.

Betting on the success of innovative technologies in the marketplace can carry all the uncertainty and risk that betting on the next card in the deck does at a blackjack table in Las Vegas. There is a factor of randomness that must be factored in, but precisely how to do so is anyone's guess.

I basically have paid for a piano and a flat-screen television completely with my poker earnings. I'm pretty good at it.

I have come to regard the courts not as a cathedral but rather as a casino.

I've always had a love of cards, ever since I was a little kid. I think poker, as a system, describes the chaos of the world. Our sudden reversals, our freak streaks of fortune. The belief that the next hand can save you, and the inevitable failure of the next hand to save you. I think that describes my world view pretty well.

I know what winning and losing is when you gamble.

I was a gambler when I was a kid, so when we got to Las Vegas, it was like Mecca.

I like to play a lot of poker in my off time.

I might put a couple of quarters in a slot machine, but I don't know how to play roulette.