Famous Quotes & Sayings

The percentage of women who gamble has dramatically increased. Twenty years ago, it would have been 80 percent men, 20 percent women, and now it's 50-50.

J. Taylor

She doesn't have hobbies, she's not a gambler and she's not a traveler.

Fernando Alonso

We did the right thing. We didn't need to take the gamble and played it safe.

Pete Rose

They haven't given too many gamblers a second chances in the world of baseball.

Paul Menard

We didn't have much to lose, so we took a gamble there. I was a little nervous. I was lifting early. It all worked out.

One of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a spade and a package of garden seeds.

I was hanging back, but I saw when he had that pressure he tried to throw it short. I took a gamble and it worked out.

Baseball is a little bigger gamble than most, and the stakes are pretty high.

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David Sullivan

He is a very good player but it seemed a gamble paying that much for a young centre-half, and we had already spent our money anyway.

Frank Robinson

He may come back from this and be able to compete. But if they go in there and operate, he's done for the season. If it does work, we'll lose him for a month or so, and that's about it. Maybe two months at the most, but you would have him for the rest of the season if he holds up, which is another gamble. It's worth the gamble to try this first.

If it didn't have Gillette, Procter & Gamble would be in a tougher spot.

Jimmy Johnson

find out who's a gambler and who's not and who can outguess the system better.

I thought, I'm going to gamble here. We haven't been putting too many hits back-to-back-to-back all year and that's what I was thinking there.

I think this is a gamble by opening up to more research. Some will be good, and some will be bad.

Them playing well together is helpful because it gives us options. We can gamble a little more on the outside on defense. Offensively, it does give us better inside shots.

This is a mistake and a sort of political gamble more than being a wise move.

You never gamble with a man named Doc.

Teams that don't have the size or the established type veteran players make up for it with the energy, and those guys play the passing lanes and gamble and go for steals.

Mike Mason

I took a gamble on the fake, but we were trying to get something going.

George Galloway

I'm 51; I'm younger than Tony Blair. I don't have a dicky heart; I'm up like a broom handle in the morning. I don't drink or gamble - I'm still a catch.

That's a gamble play there. If we had to play it over, we would do it the same way.

It's not as big a gamble as you would imagine it would be. It's all geared to hotel rooms and increasing the length of stay in hotel rooms.

If you're not a gambler and are truly risk-averse, the speculative portion of your personal investments should not be more than 10 percent.

Craig Benson

But I also think that it does create a lot of revenue, but to me it's a temporary revenue stream because it's an industry that, if suddenly gambling started in Massachusetts, then a lot of our patrons who would gamble in New Hampshire if we had it, would disappear.

It was a gamble all season long and, as a result, I didn't do well.

The gamble started in South Wales and moved down towards London from there.

Mike Alstott

You have to put the trust in your team and the players and say: 'The heck with it.' You have to gamble once in a while.

It just seems as if RIM is headed for a high-stakes gamble with the way they're handling the license dispute.

It just seems as if R.I.M. is headed for a high-stakes gamble with the way they're handling the license dispute. The lower-risk strategy would be just to settle. We're wrestling with what investors should do with the stock given the dispute.

Tess Gerritsen

Everything's a gamble, love most of all.