Adebayo Akinfenwa Quotes

I used to have a gambling problem.

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 wanted to do an episode about Chuck having a gambling problem. I wanted to portray my addiction on the show. But I think it's a little edgy for Saturday night.

Slot machines are like crack for old people.

The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother, and I call him Gamblor!

I'm not going to go back to gambling; I mean, it's as simple as that.

Anything that you can become obsessed with, and you do so much that you don't do the things you need to do with family, friends, school, job - that can be an addiction. And texting absolutely can qualify.

My mother, sister and I watched through the windows as my father gambled.

I've got an addictive personality.

When I was in high school, I had a gambling problem.

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

I do not have a problem, I enjoy gambling, but I think people are trying to make it seem like I have a problem, because people really don't know.

I drink to forget I drink.

I have a completely addictive personality. Diet Coke is my last - God, I know people counting days off Diet Coke; I'm such a Diet Cokehead. Now I won't let myself buy it.

I am an addictive personality.

Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs.

I think there are people that have very addictive personalities.

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.

There is a quality of selfishness that is associated with an individual when they are in the depths of addiction.

But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

Who do you think I am, Pete Rose? I don't bet. I come from a long line of compulsive gamblers. Gambling scares me.

Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.

I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That's how I lost my mind.