Gambler Quotes - page 2

I don't care what a man is as long as he treats me right. He can be a gambler, a hustler, someone everybody else thinks is obnoxious, I don't care so long as he's straight with me and our dealings are fair. (Joe Namath)
They always lost but he didn't blame me because to a gambler, a bad tip is better than no tip at all. View quote
Phil Silvers
Harvard Medical School, the University of South Florida and the American Psychiatric Association have all conducted studies showing that the earlier one begins gambling, the more likely it is he or she will become an addicted, problem gambler. View quote
Spencer Bachus
I'm a gambler, a farmboy, and I'm here to take command of your bloody army! --Mat Cauthon. View quote
Robert Jordan
There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
One thing I have learned in my painful career as a gambler is that bragging when you get lucky and win a few games will plunge you into gloom and unacceptable beatings very soon. It happens every time. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
The Doc Holliday of legend is a gambler and gunman who appears out of nowhere in 1881, arriving in Tombstone with a bad reputation and a hooker named Big Nose Kate. View quote
Mary Doria Russell
Anthropologists have often commented on the striking resemblance between the uneducated gambler and the primitive. View quote
Richard Arnold Epstein
All the evidence shows that God was actually quite a gambler, and the Universe is a great casino, where dice are thrown, and roulette wheels spin on every occasion. View quote
Stephen Hawking
There was a later time when sincere men tried to build an organization as wide as the world to secure the peace of the world. It had been tried before and it had failed before. Perhaps if it failed this time it would not be tried again for a very long while. The idea of the thing was attacked by good and bad men, in good faith and bad. The final realization of it was so close that it could be touched with the fingertips. A gambler wouldn't have given odds on it either way. It teetered, and it almost seemed as though it would succeed. Then members of that group interfered." "And it failed, O'Claire?" "No. It succeeded, Foley, as in the other case. It succeeded in so twisted a fashion that the Devil himself was puzzled as to whether he had gained or lost ground by it. And he isn't easily puzzled. View quote
R. A. Lafferty