Malcolm X Quotes

There's a game out there, and the stakes are high. And the guy who runs it figures the averages all day long and all night long. Once in a while he lets you steal a pot. But if you stay in the game long enough, you've got to lose. And once you've lost there's no way back, no way at all.

I know what winning and losing is when you gamble.

Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck.

The attraction in this city is money, from gambling. What you are if you work here is a shill.

The punters [gamblers] know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.

Sometimes when you gamble, you get up from the table with a fortune.

In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win.

Unfortunately, gambling and winning don't often go hand-in-hand.

Most amusements only mean trying to win another person's money.

I don’t like gambling very much. I don’t like being at the mercy of those little white squares that roll around and decide whether you win or lose. I like to have the say-so myself.

They head the list of bad to bet on: But I insist they're worse to get on

No, that's poker. To win, you've gotta get damned lucky.

Why do people play the lottery, or why do people gamble, period? You know, it's with the hope of winning something more.

I learned playing poker that you never count your winnings because that's when you start to lose.

Gambling is part of the human condition. I love it. I have the best time gambling. I've been winning fortunes, and I've been losing them.

Yeah, I like to gamble.

I'm not a betting man.

The mob taught me how to play gin rummy.

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

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

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

Without gambling, I would not exist.

I could think of worse ways of going than at the poker table.

Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.

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.