Sports betting

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• "The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet."
  Grantland Rice
• "Don't gamble the rent money or you'll land up sleeping on the park bench."
  Capt. Summer Fun, Ret.
• "Blackjack is the only casino game an amateur can learn to play and at which he can definitely win."
  Lawrence Revere, author, Playing Blackjack as a Business
• "Gambling is the future on the internet. You can only look at so many dirty pictures."
  Simon Noble, an Austrian-based internet bookmaker
• "When we put 50 machines in, I consider them 50 more mousetraps. You have to have a mousetrap to catch a mouse."
  Bob Stupak, former Las Vegas casino owner
• Noting his mother's visit to Las Vegas the weekend before she died. "She got to go to heaven four days early."
  President Bill Clinton
• "A lottery is a salutary instrument and a tax…laid on the willing only, that is to say, on those who can risk the price of a ticket without sensible injury, for the possibility of a higher prize."
  Thomas Jefferson
• "You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it."
  Albert Einstein
• "A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to us than the 99 which we had to work for, and the money won at Faro or in the stock market snuggles into our hearts in the same way."
  Mark Twain
• They were burying a high-roller in Las Vegas and a few of his gambling cronies were gathered grave side when the minister said; "Gus is merely sleeping." His best friend was heard muttering: "I've got a hundred that says he's dead."