“In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and to keep them coming back. The longer they play, the more they lose, and in the end, we get it all.”
Robert De Niro - Sam "Ace" Rothstein

“- Dragons Basketball Coach: My players have league scoring records at stake. It wouldn't be fair to them.
- Coach Finstock: I just thought figured you quit now, you can beat the 5 o'clock traffic.
- Dragons Basketball Coach: There's a lot to learn from losing.”
Troy Evans - Dragon Basketball Coach
Jay Tarses - Coach Finstock

“- Chloe Lawrence: Sorry James, but, I play to win.
- Lord James Browning Jr.: You know, sometimes you win one thing, and you lose another.”
Mary-Kate Olsen - Chloe Lawrence
Jesse Spencer - Lord James Browning Jr.

“- Sam: Last game here I'm playing myself.
- Fresh: You're losing to yourself.
- Sam: Yeah, life's a bitch like that.”
Samuel L. Jackson - Sam
Sean Nelson - Fresh

“Men are pretty much like children after all. Have you ever seen two kids wrestling in the yard? They push and they tussle and maybe they look like they're fighting... but they're not. They're really friends and everything is fun. Then pretty soon they play a little too rough. One of them gets mad. And in the end, somebody always gets hurt.”

Walter Huston - Doc Holliday