Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.

Baseball is a little bigger gamble than most, and the stakes are pretty high.

With what we were doing in ECW, the first thing you had to overcome was the fear of getting hurt.

Writing's like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.

At that level, every goal is like a knife in the ribs.

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

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.

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

Without gambling, I would not exist.

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.

Football is a violent sport. Somebody's going to get hurt. It's the game. Just hopefully, you're on the good side of it.

If we consider games of chance immoral, then every pursuit of human industry is immoral; for there is not a single one that is not subject to chance, not one wherein you do not risk a loss for the chance of some gain... In all these pursuits, you take some one thing against another which you hope to win... These, then, are games of chance. Yet so far from being immoral, they are indispensable to the existence of man, and every one has a natural right to choose for his pursuit such one of them as he thinks most likely to furnish him subsistence.

I'm looking forward to getting out there and twisting limbs off and breaking bodies.

It's football. Guys get hurt all the time.

It's MMA. Anything can happen. Nothing's for sure.

I've lost my share in the pen. I don't keep track, but I've won much more than I've lost. Since I was released almost one year ago, I've gone 9-1. My only loss was to a punk that brought mace to the dance.

I broke people's bones, tore muscles, ribs, faces, inflicted some serious and heavy damages to my opponents, etc... I got hurt myself, too, from serious attacks.

You practice Monday through Friday in college, or Monday through Saturday in the pro's - and then you just go out and knock somebody's head off.

I can remember a couple of real fights when I ran. Because they were kinda dangerous.

I've played a lot in Las Vegas in my life.

As a matter of fact, believe it or not guys, you can actually lose money in sports! I know that you'll find that shocking.

Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning.

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

Being injured is something that happens in this sport. Anybody who gets into it understands that.