Alex Rocco Quotes

I love being a punter.

As a teenager, I developed a great interest in not only horse breeding but also horse racing and used to bet based on red-hot tips. I realized that becoming a bookmaker would be very lucrative, but Dad put his foot down, saying it was an inappropriate career.

I never really gambled - certainly not playing poker. I'd casually bet on a football game or joined a pool.

If I gamble, I'll play roulette. My wife and I will play roulette, and that's about it. I'm not a heavy gambler.

My father was a racetrack bookie.

There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother's milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won't be any winners.

Daily Fantasy Sports has nothing to do with sports. The “game,” such as it is, uses sporting events the way the lottery uses ping-pong balls. Being into DFS because you’re a sports fan is like being into poker because you’re just generally a big fan of clovers, diamonds and spades. Indeed, the best players don’t know anything about sports at all, a fact they are cheerfully honest, even boastful, about.

Persons whose wagers depend upon how particular selected athletes perform in actual sporting events stand in no different stead than persons who wager on the outcome of any sporting event in which they are not participants.

I don't believe bookmakers.

I can say, 'right, I will stop this kid in round five.' If I am good enough to do that then fair enough. I don't gamble but my brothers and my friends, they did quite well off it.

In most betting shops you will see three windows marked 'Bet Here', but only one window with the legend 'Pay Out'.

Yeah, I like to gamble.

I'm not a betting man.

I'm not a gambling-man. I have never bet a dollar in all my life.

You shouldn't have any betting in the locker room at all, whether it's baseball or it's horses. You can't beat the horses. You can't beat any kind of gambling because they have the odds.

Everybody knows that England is the world of betting men, who are of a higher class than mere gamblers: to bet is in the English temperament.

The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win.

I don't take a lot of notice of odds.

I'm not the betting kind.

Anybody who finds it easy to make money on the horses is probably in the dog food business.

My character at 'Mel's diner' was involved in betting on the horses and all that.

It used to be said all horse players die broke - you can't beat the races. But today, with the Pick 6's and Superfectas, you can. Not that the odds aren't against you, but a good hit, and it's hard to blow that back.

As I like to say, if you want to pay attention to a horse race, put two dollars on a horse, and you'll pay enormous attention to all 11 horses in the race.

I like to bet on as close to a sure thing as you can find.

I know what winning and losing is when you gamble.