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One way to stop a runaway horse is to bet on him.

Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his oar I would have stayed.

A race track is a place where windows clean people.

When your opponent's sittin' there holdin' all the aces, there's only one thing to do: kick over the table.

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

The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.

I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.

The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.

A dollar won is twice as sweet as a dollar earned.

I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.

The champion makes his own luck.

Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness.

Shallow men believe in luck.

It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.

Gambling is part of the human condition. I love it. I have the best time gambling. I've been winning fortunes, and I've been losing them.

True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it?