Sports betting

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• "My last piece of advice to the degenerate slot player who thinks he can beat the one-armed bandit consists of four little words: "It can't be done."
  John Scarne
• "When a gambler picks up a pack of cards or a pair of dice, he feels as though he has reduced an unmanageable world to a finite, visible and comprehensive size."
  Annabel Davis-Goff, The Literary Companion to Gambling
• "If you ain't just a little scared when you enter a casino, you are either very rich or you haven't studied the games enough."
  VP Pappy
• "Even as I approach the gambling hall, as soon as I hear, two rooms away, the jingle of money poured out on the table, I almost go into convulsions."
  Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler (1867)
• "A number of moralists condemn lotteries and refuse to see anything noble in the passion of the ordinary gambler. They judge gambling as some atheists judge religion, by its excesses."
  Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia (1832)
• "Guessing has never been widely acclaimed as a good gambling strategy."
  Dr. G
• "No wife can endure a gambling husband unless he is a steady winner."
  Lord Dewar
• Something to moan out between grinding teeth after this political season. "Didn't I warn you-Huh-Didn't I tell you one of 'em was going to win!?? So now, what do we do?"
  Jack Norris
• "Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one."
  Pope John XXIII
• "With the perverse logic of a degenerate gambler he figured God was testing his faith."
  Mario Puzo, Inside Las Vegas