Tilda Swinton Quotes

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.

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.

My father was an insurance man and a small-time gambler. He was a good man, but he had an eye for the racehorses, and I saw how it used to bother my mother. I've never gambled a dime. Never, in all those years in Vegas.

I'm a pro-horserace guy.

I still gamble, but it's all legal. I own horses, and I go to watch my horse. I don't go daily.

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

I used to sports gamble a lot and I was getting killed on that but then I found poker and really enjoyed it. But it was a hobby more than anything else. I played it every day but only on pretty small stakes.

Yeah, I like to gamble.

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

I'm a gambler at heart. That's my life.

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

I don't play. I'm a terrible gambler. I don't know half the rules, and I'm not really patient enough to sit through hours of gaming.

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

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

My father was a racetrack bookie.

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

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.

When I was in high school, my uncle, who went to the races quite a bit, got me interested. Then when I went to college at Southern Illinois University, just a few hours from Louisville, we used to go to the Kentucky Derby, and I got to see Secretariat and Riva Ridge win.

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.

The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally.

Grand National Holiday

Whoever gambles with the dollar, loses

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.