Gambling Psychology Quotes

The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win

I don't play golf competitively. I tell everybody that I cheat so they won't gamble with me. That's why you can't watch football. Everybody's gambling. They don't want to watch the game; they watch the spread.

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

If you gamble long enough, you'll always lose -- the gambler is always ruined.

Gambling houses are temples where the most sordid and turbulent passions contend; there no spectator can be indifferent. A card or a small square of ivory interests more than the loss of an empire, or the ruin of an unoffending group of infants, and their nearest relatives.

I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.

I'm absolutely gonna win it, because I'm ruthless. I sit at the poker table and my job is to destroy people.

The exercises I wholly condemn are dicing and carding, especially if you play for any great sum of money, or spend any time in them, or use to come to meetings in dicing-houses, where cheaters meet and cozen young gentlemen out of all their money.

In betting on races, there are two elements that are never lacking - hope as hope, and an incomplete recollection of the past.

Bond didn't defend the practice. He simply maintained that the more effort and ingenuity you put into gambling, the more you took out.

But gamblers know how a man can sit for almost twenty-four hours at cards, without looking to right, or to left.

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

All gamblers are paranoid, though they call it superstition.

It is a very curious thing about superstition. One would expect that the man who had once seen his morbid dreams were not fulfilled would abandon them for the future; but on the contrary they grow even stronger just as the love of gambling increases in a man who has once lost in a lottery.

That the chance of gain is naturally over-valued, we may learn from the universal success of lotteries.

I am not surprised that there are gambling houses, like so many snares laid for human avarice; like abysses where many a man's money is engulfed and swallowed up without any hope of return; like frightful rocks against which the gamblers are thrown and perish.

I'm afraid a lot of people have lost a lot of money over the years betting on me.

A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.

I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people - being always excited.

Lotteries are just one way to provide positive reinforcement. Their power comes from the fact that the chance of winning the prize is overvalued.

People go to Vegas, and they don't know what to do; here's what you do. You go to the casino in your hotel. On your arrival, you get $100 in quarters. Take that $100 back to your hotel room and stare at it for a long, long time. Why? Because you're never going to see them again. Then you take those quarters to the bathroom and you flush them, one by one by one. And the nice thing about that is that every so often the toilet will back up, and you'll feel like a WINNER!

Gambling is not as destructive as war or as boring as pornography. It is not as immoral as business or as suicidal as watching television. And the percentages are better than religion.

The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.

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

All gamblers lose regularly, but they rarely discuss it in public. Losing is bad for the image, dude. Nobody buys Hot Tips from Losers. Remember that.