Gambling Quotes

The fallacy of sunk cost… It’s what gamblers do. They throw good money after bad thinking they can turn their luck around. It’s like, “I’ve already spent this much money or time… whatever. I got to keep going!” No, there’s no reward at the end of this game.

Poker was for boys. Bridge, that’s for grownups.

Better to gamble on the man you know than the strangers you don’t?

A gambler on the run is still a gambler. We are who we are.

This was tough. I suggested we flip a coin, but Angela said she doesn’t like to gamble. Of course, by saying that, she was gambling that I wouldn’t smack her.

No one likes a long shot more than a gambler.

I’ve made my living in large part as a gambler. Some days I make twenty bets, some days I make none. There are weeks, sometimes months in fact, when I don’t make a bet at all because there simply is no play. So I wait, plan, marshal my resources. And when I finally see an opportunity and there is a bet to make, I bet it all.[to Nucky]

As long as people have hope, gambling is alive.

A man does not gamble and wish for good fortune. A real man takes what he wants, creates his own.