James Doyle Quotes

Slot machine revenue may briefly fatten the State’s bottom line, but slots do this by hurting the local economy…. Choking traffic, violent crime, and petty larceny always follow wherever gambling has been implemented.

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

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

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

Gambling is a most foolish and imprudent pursuit.

You know you have a gambling problem when it's 4 A.M. at the Mirage Sports Book and you're walking around going, 'Hey you get the lacrosse scores?'

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

Never put your money against Cassius Clay, for you will never have a lucky day.

No wife can endure a gambling husband; unless he is a steady winner.

I love online gambling.

Diving into Internet speculation is like playing with the devil. It's tempting, of course.

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.

It is always a vulgar and often an unhealthy pastime, and it is a vice which does not go alone; the man who gambles will find himself capable of any evil.

In fact, a University of Connecticut study showed that as many as three in four pre-teens and teens who are exposed to Internet gambling become addicted.

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

Shockingly, a University of Pennsylvania study says the number of young people addicted to gambling - largely due to increased exposure to the Internet and Internet gambling - grew by an alarming 20 percent between 2004 and 2005 alone.

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.

I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.

Slot machines are like crack for old people.

Gambling is the only addiction that the government promotes.

I was a gambler when I was a kid, so when we got to Las Vegas, it was like Mecca.

I've made $50 million over the years as a movie star, if you'll pardon the expression, and I've given most of it to the bookies.

I go to Vegas now, and I'm in the casino, and I'm gambling, and there's a guy in a wet bathing suit gambling right next to me.