Sports betting

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• "The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket."
  Kin Hubbard
• "Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect."
  Ralph Waldo Emerson.
• I hope to break even this week. I need the money.
  VETERAN LAS VEGAS GAMBLER
• "Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a lifetime, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her."
  Mark Twain
• "The only difference between a winner and a loser is character."
  Nick the Greek
• "It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck."
  Joseph Conrad
• "We got an education when in 1992 Wolfgang Puck opened Spago in the Forum Shops in Caesars Palace and proved to us that people will line up to get good food."
  Steve Wynn
• "But, Steve, if you bring back a $3.49 prime rib buffet, you'll have lines out the casino front door and down Las Vegas Blvd."
  Mark Pilarski
• This quote crossed my desk this week from a reader. Those of you with the same passion and affliction for betting motor sports as I might enjoy it.
  "Race fans, I had inferred from my one trip to the Brickyard 400, fell into one of two categories: tattooed, shirtless, sewer-mouthed drunks, and their husbands."
  
  - Steve Ruchin, Sports Illustrated
  
• "I believe in luck. How else can you explain the success of those you dislike?"
  Jean Cocteau