Allan Sherman Quotes

Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet you can't win.

There's a difference between fair game and playing games.

When a man tells me he's going to put all his cards on the table, I always look up his sleeve.

The best way to win at a game of chance is to remove chance from the equation.

Any game looks straight if everyone is being cheated at once.

If you ain't trying to cheat a little, you ain't likely to win much.

This was my first lesson about gambling: if you see somebody winning all the time, he isn't gambling, he's cheating. Later on in life, if I were continuously losing in any gambling situation, I would watch very closely.

Everybody knows the dice are loaded.

No, that's poker. To win, you've gotta get damned lucky.

There will always be cheaters. It is human nature. It will never be 100 percent clean, in any sport.

Poker has such an element of competitivness that other games don't have.

The mob taught me how to play gin rummy.

Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose.

There are no friends at cards or world politics.

Not only did we play the race card, we dealt it from the bottom of the deck.

I have no problem with cheating. Whatever you can get away with.

Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.

But human nature dictates that there will always be cheaters. That's inevitable. Where there's money involved and glory, there are going to be people that cheat, and there will always be ways to cheat.

I played in the playoffs with teams that were known for flopping and you do not get respect.

The punters [gamblers] know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.

Gambling is entertainment. People go to casinos to be entertained.

Everything is susceptible to corruption of one sort or another - humanity is one big cheat - but it matters particularly with sport, which ceases to be itself the minute the outcome's rigged.

I know I've cut corners in every single fight I've had because I've used my ability to get through.

I was a beat-the-system sort of player, but you can't beat the system, you have to prepare properly.

The more money in the game, the more players will try anything to win.