Gladys Knight Quotes

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

If I gamble, I go for the lowest-end blackjack or slots. It's because I don't like to lose!

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

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

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

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

Yeah man, they call gambling a disease, but it's the only disease where you can win a bunch of money.

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 like blackjack. I like the psychology of poker.

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.

With gamblers, it's never enough. You keep thinking on a conscious level that the prize is whatever the pot is. In poker, you may have a certain goal for the day. But the truth is, as soon as you win, more often than not the first thing that comes to mind is: If I'd bet more, I would have won more.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

I love online gambling.

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.

At night when I can't sleep, I play blackjack online until I get tired or I lose my money.

Gambling is the only addiction that the government promotes.

If you're betting all the time, everything is just another bet. You don't even think about the money after you've made the arrangements. You're used to it.

Of course I gamble, to make the games interesting. But five hundred dollars a game, tops. Or sometimes a thousand. No heart attack bets.

I don't go to casinos to gamble.

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 live in Las Vegas and I like my money, but I don't gamble, but I said to my wife I want to put a $100,000 on Shogun.

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.

You'd have to get my money out of my cold dead hand before I gambled it away.

Most gamblers do it for ego. It's not about winning or losing, it's about challenging your ego and showing your mates you're fearless and will bet on anything.