Footballers are an easy target. They are offered big lines of credit. Every sport is vulnerable; it’s such a big gambling industry, and there are problems with syndicates in other countries. – Gordon Taylor
There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians. – Georges Pompidou
Part of the $10 million I spent on gambling, part on booze and part on women. The rest I spent foolishly. – George Raft
Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It’s getting money without giving an equivalent for it. – Henry Ward Beecher
My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow money from my fellow workmen to settle my room rent and pay for my meals. – James Weldon Johnson
Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces. – Hunter S. Thompson
All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling. – Bill Nighy
I’m not coming in as an advocate of sports gambling. I’m trying to be more of a realist to say it’s going on in a massive way… and I think the right course would be therefore to legalize it and regulate it. – Adam Silver
Establishing a 0.03 percent Wall Street speculation fee, similar to what we had from 1914-1966, would dampen the dangerous level of speculation and gambling on Wall Street, encourage the financial sector to invest in the productive economy and reduce the deficit by more than $350 billion over 10 years. – Bernie Sanders
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. – Ambrose Bierce
We didn’t become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn’t come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn’t do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell. – Barack Obama
A weekend in Vegas without gambling and drinking is just like being a born-again Christian. – Artie Lange
The 2006 federal Internet gaming statute is not ambiguous. It does not prohibit gambling on fantasy sports. – Eric Schneiderman
Obviously, Nevada doesn’t prohibit all forms of gambling, but you have to submit yourself to a very rigorous regulatory process to run a gambling operation in Nevada. – Eric Schneiderman
For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established some claim to being considered a learned man. – Frederic William Farrar
I played golf with my friends, and then I started to play with the hustlers. And I learned a lot. I learned about golf; I learned about gambling. I learned about everything. – Donald Trump
Friendship is something whose depth fits human aspirations and fulfills human possibilities. It has heft to it, as a gold-piece does and a gambling chip does not. – Eugene Kennedy
Our review concludes that DraftKings’/FanDuel’s operations constitute illegal gambling under New York law. – Eric Schneiderman
Writing’s like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less. – M. John Harrison
But I also think that it does create a lot of revenue, but to me it’s a temporary revenue stream because it’s an industry that, if suddenly gambling started in Massachusetts, then a lot of our patrons who would gamble in New Hampshire if we had it, would disappear. – Craig Benson
You shouldn’t have any betting in the locker room at all, whether it’s baseball or it’s horses. You can’t beat the horses. You can’t beat any kind of gambling because they have the odds. – George Steinbrenner
But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too. – Fisher Stevens
