Derek Kilmer Quotes

The more money in the game, the more players will try anything to win.

How can I go on with this? Please God, let me win a football pool.

It's nice to have the opportunity to play for so much money, but it's nicer to win it.

You can go home with a lot of money with absolutely no skill.

I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.

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

Without gambling, I would not exist.

I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

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.

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

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.

Hope! fortune's cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!

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.

Your email inbox is a bit like a Las Vegas roulette machine. You know, you just check it and check it, and every once in a while there's some juicy little tidbit of reward, like the three quarters that pop down on a one-armed bandit. And that keeps you coming back for more.

I have never played the lottery in my life and never will. Voltaire described lotteries as a tax on stupidity. More specifically, I think, on innumeracy.

Writing's like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.

If I can't play for big money, I play for a little money. And if I can't play for a little money, I stay in bed that day.

I despise the Lottery. There's less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid.

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

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

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.

Picking winners among the many young companies seeking money is a tough business, even for the most sophisticated investors. Indeed, most professionally run venture funds lose money. For individuals, it's pure folly. Buy a lottery ticket instead. Your chance of winning is likely to be higher.

Yeah, I like to gamble.