Walter Matthau Quotes

I bet on baseball in 1987 and 1988.

I want to spend as much time as I can with my family, yet I'm aware of having to bring home the bacon.

We continue to fight for good jobs that pay well and jobs that last. Helping to get folks back to work is about helping them to regain their dignity and pride. That's what families care about.

There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother's milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won't be any winners.

I love being a punter.

Persons whose wagers depend upon how particular selected athletes perform in actual sporting events stand in no different stead than persons who wager on the outcome of any sporting event in which they are not participants.

I don't believe bookmakers.

The only gambling I do is on a Saturday afternoon when I might put on two wingers or two strikers.

I'm a businessman. I build things, create jobs - jobs that allow people to pay their mortgage, put food on the table, put their kids through college.

Nobody ever wants to see a guy get hurt, because this is how we feed our families.

Everything in our lives revolves around our jobs, as much as we hate to say it. Where we live at, where our kids go to school, what we eat, what lifestyle we live, depends on the income we bring in and being able to provide for your family, and that's your employment.

In most betting shops you will see three windows marked 'Bet Here', but only one window with the legend 'Pay Out'.

It is easy to say that if such harassment happens, walk out of your job. But people depend on that job. It is about their livelihood, a question of survival. So while we must encourage victims for coming up with their #MeToo stories, we should not judge women for not sharing their stories.

If you want to provide for your family, maybe show business is not a high degree of success. You will need to keep your day job until you make it, and know it's an odds thing just like the NFL. I personally wouldn't recommend anybody to go into this business.

It was nice to be home for a change. Nice to be with my husband. Nice to be with the kids. But it's also nice to be touring again.

My paternal uncle and aunt have jobs, and they are the ones who feed the family with a regular income.

WWE has given me everything; it really has. My kids will go to college because of them, I don't have to worry about finances because of them.

I was living in a four-story Manhattan townhouse with three full-time servants and silver to be polished, and I was doing too much. My kids were growing up without me, and suddenly I thought, 'I want some other stuff.' So I stopped working instead of cutting back, and went to Australia instead of Vermont.

The reason I fight is to provide for my family, and I cannot risk having that taken away.

I'm not a gambler and I never have been.

I want to relax and spend time with my family.

The minimum wage can play a vital role in lifting hard-working families above the poverty line.

My father worked in a factory and as a child it felt very secure. It felt very secure because everybody had work, the schools were free, so there was a security of knowing that the war had finished and families would come together again.

My kids, my health and my job are all equally important.

As a general rule, Las Vegas sports books take boxing bets only on major fights.The same is true of most Internet gaming sites. Within that framework, not only does boxing allow participants to bet on their own bouts, it sometimes encourages them to do so.