Isoroku Yamamoto Quotes

Gambling is the only addiction that the government promotes.

As a kid, I saw that Dad lost a lot of money in casinos, and I didn't understand that. I thought this must be a great business. At the same time, I saw when I was with him - and I was with him a lot of the time - that this was a really cool business, and it was fun and glamorous.

All gamblers lose regularly, but they rarely discuss it in public. Losing is bad for the image, dude. Nobody buys Hot Tips from Losers. Remember that.

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

When I first came to do shows in Vegas, I followed the usual entertainer's syndrome - I played craps and lost.

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

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

I got into gambling when I was playing a casino. I was a hermit in those days. I would go onstage, go to my room, or if we had to travel, I'd get in a car or a plane, whatever. But I didn't do anything. One day, this friend of mine said, 'Do you want to play some blackjack?'

The worst problem I've probably had was the gambling - you can do your money in the bookies a lot quicker than you can do it in the pub.

Most gamblers do it for ego. It's not about winning or losing, it's about challenging your ego and showing your mates you're fearless and will bet on anything.

Gambling is a most foolish and imprudent pursuit.

There is no such thing as 'social gambling.' Either you are there to cut the other bloke's heart out and eat it -- or you're a sucker. If you don't like this choice -- don't gamble.

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?'

They haven't given too many gamblers a second chances in the world of baseball.

If you spend a week at a casino you will very easily see that people have a certain way of behaving in a casino.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.

I wouldn't see myself as a gambler.

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.

If I gamble, I go for the lowest-end blackjack or slots. It's because I don't like to lose!

I've been in Vegas. That's where you get into the money thing. Boy, you get greedy in Vegas, you know. That's the only place that you can bet $25, get it up to $500 and refuse to quit.

Slot machines are like crack for old people.

If you're betting all the time, everything is just another bet. You don't even think about the money after you've made the arrangements. You're used to it.

Gamble until you die. I do not really care.

Of course I gamble, to make the games interesting. But five hundred dollars a game, tops. Or sometimes a thousand. No heart attack bets.