Mark Ellwood Quotes

Betting on the success of innovative technologies in the marketplace can carry all the uncertainty and risk that betting on the next card in the deck does at a blackjack table in Las Vegas. There is a factor of randomness that must be factored in, but precisely how to do so is anyone's guess.

I guess if there weren't luck involved, I'd win 'em all.

Hollywood is a casino. You have to put your chips on the table and hope for the best.

I'm not a betting man.

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

I've always had a love of cards, ever since I was a little kid. I think poker, as a system, describes the chaos of the world. Our sudden reversals, our freak streaks of fortune. The belief that the next hand can save you, and the inevitable failure of the next hand to save you. I think that describes my world view pretty well.

I'm always ready to play for money.

Any move is a risk. Nothing is guaranteed in football.

I know there are no guarantees of winning and the only thing we have is to work on chances. If you want guarantees buy a washing machine.

There are no guarantees. If you spent money, it's no guarantee you win stuff.

In football, there are no guarantees.

I'm a betting man. I like to gamble everywhere, everything I do.

The unexpected cannot guarantee success, but it guarantees the best chance of success.

Some you win some you lose.

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

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.

Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.

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

In the game of football, you can never be too sure of anything.

Artists of all times are like the gamblers of Monte Carlo, and this blind lottery allows some to succeed and ruins others. In my opinion, neither the winners nor the losers are worth worrying about.

Whether I fall on my feet or fall on my arse, I dunno. You've got to take those risks.

You win some, lose some, and wreck some.

You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.

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

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.