Gary Bettman Quotes

It's for a different circumstance when you're talking about playing for money and playing for heart.

Nothing is sacred to a gamester.

I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

Technology is like the ante in a poker game. It is the price you pay to play the game. But it doesn't mean you are going to win.

I know what winning and losing is when you gamble.

Performances are always more interesting to me when something is at stake.

Many times the players get in there and it's just about as well as they could have done, and other times they get in there and they favorites and they don't win.

I bet on everything. Everything. It's just like, 'I bet you I can spin my chair longer.' Everything, I say 'I bet you.' I love to win.

When you make a bet, you're saying something.

The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.

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

I'm not a betting man.

If I'm playing cards for pennies, I want to win.

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.

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

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

They always lost but he didn't blame me because to a gambler, a bad tip is better than no tip at all.

Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city - you'll find a congregation in every tavern.

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

I'm not really a gambler, but I'll bet on the Super Bowl or some boxing. Something I feel comfortable with.

A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.

I learned to bet the Red Sox, the Celtics, Suffolk Downs. I thought it was a glorious life - pull up to the doughnut shop, spread out, and plan your day.

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

I used to go to Vegas and play the horses, and then I realised how ridiculous that was. There is no winning in gambling, but there is on the stock market.

You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.