Compulsive Gambling Quotes

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

I wanted to do an episode about Chuck having a gambling problem. I wanted to portray my addiction on the show. But I think it's a little edgy for Saturday night.

Slot machines are like crack for old people.

You know you have a gambling problem when it's 4 A.M. at the Mirage Sports Book and you're walking around going, 'Hey you get the lacrosse scores?'

To be honest, most of my troubles - bankruptcy, drinking, gambling - were self-inflicted.

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

Be assured that, although men of eminent genius have been guilty of all other vices, none worthy of more than a secondary name has ever been a gamester. Either an excess of avarice or a deficiency of what, in physics, is called excitability, is the cause of it; neither of which can exist in the same bosom with genius, with patriotism, or with virtue.

No wife can endure a gambling husband; unless he is a steady winner.

Of course I gamble, to make the games interesting. But five hundred dollars a game, tops. Or sometimes a thousand. No heart attack bets.

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice.

When I was in high school, I had a gambling problem.

No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.

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

Many a man who goes to Las Vegas to get away from it all soon finds that Las Vegas gets it all away from him.

Slot machine revenue may briefly fatten the State’s bottom line, but slots do this by hurting the local economy…. Choking traffic, violent crime, and petty larceny always follow wherever gambling has been implemented.

I was a gambler when I was a kid, so when we got to Las Vegas, it was like Mecca.

You know, there's a 12 step program for gambling. You should look into that. Twelve steps. Coyote laughed. I'll bet I can do it in six.

I went broke after sophomore year, gambled away all my money, sold some guns, turned $750 into $10,000, flew to Vegas, turned ten thou into $187,000.

The worst problem I've probably had was the gambling - you can do your money in the bookies a lot quicker than you can do it in the pub.

I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That's how I lost my mind.

I actually went to some Gamblers Anonymous classes, and I sat there for three or four of them, and I'm trying to figure out what I have in similarities with these other people, and I could never find anything. It just seems like it wasn't the right place for me.

He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.

He is like some sherry-crazed old dowager who has lost the family silver at roulette, and who now decides to double up by betting the house as well.