Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

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.

I do love to gamble; I hate to admit it.

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

My father was a gambler. My father could not resist a casino or a card game. He loved gambling.

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

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.

At night when I can't sleep, I play blackjack online until I get tired or I lose my money.

I am a gambler. I decided to go in with Company E in the first wave.

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.

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

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

That's why I really don't play cards or gamble. Because I'd crack.

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 lost $6 in Atlantic City once and said, 'Never again.'

I've made $50 million over the years as a movie star, if you'll pardon the expression, and I've given most of it to the bookies.

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

I don't gamble.

When I lose a big pot, I go a little crazy.

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

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

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've played a lot in Las Vegas in my life.

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.

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

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