“Life is a gamble, at terrible odds. If it were a bet you wouldn’t take it.”

“I wouldn’t trust you if you were the last life raft leaving the Titanic.”-max”

“This was my first lesson about gambling: if you see somebody winning all the time, he isn't gambling, he's cheating. Later on in life, if I were continuously losing in any gambling situation, I would watch very closely.”

“Gambling was safer than war. More fun, too. Best of all, it gave him better odds.”

“Many of the dangerous things that drivers do are not likely to save them even 10 seconds. When you bet your life against 10 seconds, that is giving bigger odds than you are ever likely to get in Las Vegas.”

“Man doesn’t have to take a gamble just ’cause it’s there. You got to learn that.”

“Every job you take is a gamble that could increase your options or shut them down.”

“Drugs are a bet with your mind.”

“It’s like gambling, somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don’t know where you’re going to end up the next day. It could work out good, or it could be disastrous. It’s like the throw of the dice.”

“Don't bet your life on a speculative game that you can't win.”

“Did you take Joyce's engine?'
'My instructions were to disable the car, but one of the men bet Hal a burger he couldn't get the engine out. So Hal removed the engine.”