Gabe Kaplan Quotes

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

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

Slot machines are like crack for old people.

Gambling is the only addiction that the government promotes.

People who don't gamble aren't worth talking to.

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

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.

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

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.

Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.

I wouldn't see myself as a gambler.

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.

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

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.

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?'

Gamble until you die. I do not really care.

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.

High stakes, low stakes, poor or rich - people will find a way to gamble.

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.

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice.

Gambling is a most foolish and imprudent pursuit.

Viva Las Vegas with your neon flashin' and your one arm bandits crashin' all those hopes down the drain. Viva Las Vegas turnin' day into nighttime, turnin night into daytime. If you see it once, you'll never be the same again.