Favorite Luck Quotes
The U.S. economy is in the fuckin' toilet. NY bankers with their three-card monte bond swaps have brought all the walls down. Tremendous structural damage to the tax base, plus unemployment plus, my impression, tremendous, tremendous compression of the leisure gaming dollar.
Ace
You think you're the first front in history?
Ace [to Gus]
Nathan: Could "wait to go" mean "way to go", like congratulations your horse won?
Ace: It doesn't say "way to go", it says "wait to go Greek". Read it. Read. What is the first letter?
Nathan: That's a W.
Ace: And the last of the first word?
Nathan: "ait"
Ace: No! "T"!
Jerry: Having learned so little, I can offer to teach you everything I know.
Naomi: For what in return?
Jerry: Sticking with a fella who's feeling lucky. Maybe sometime later in the evening you'll let him take you out for a soda.
Lonnie: Will someone please tell me what's happening!?
Jerry: We win. It's over. We won!
Leon: She was movin' good Ronnie. I wouldn't have been asking her.
Ronnie: She was moving great. I was watching.
Leon: Did you ever have that? The light go out of their eyes?
Ronnie: You never get used to it. That's why the make Jim Beam.
Ace: Sometimes I wonder if I'm still an asset.
Mr. DiRossi: As asset? Ace, you're the architect! But you take your time. You have a right to find your own stride.
In California, established and passed by the legislature, horse racing is legal, and casino gaming isn't, leaving aside for a second the fucking rain dancers, and, like the whole state economy, the track is desperate for new streams of revenue. The perfect fucking Trojan horse.
Ace
You don't know how special you are, do you? How you can run, who your daddy was. How they killed him. 2000 miles ain't gonna make any difference. Why didn't I do this? Why didn't I do that? Why didn't I hear it goin' on?
Walter [to horse]
Gus: Hey Ace, what is a claiming race?
Ace: They set a price where you can buy any horse in the race.
Gus: When do you put up your dough?
Ace: Before the race you gotta put your claim in.
Gus: And then after he runs, you can pull your offer?
Ace: No, you own him no matter what. Unless there's more than one claim. But you knew that.
Kentucky Quality killed his daddy. When the colonel died, they took over his farm and they spent all the money until there was nothing left. They took out an insurance policy on Delphi for 30 million. They killed him. They broke his legs. They said it was his fault. You know what breaking legs sounds like? Branches snapping. I always wondered if maybe I could'a done something. Heard something.
Walter
Ace: You're the new favorite, Greek.
Gus: That's good, Ace. Alls I'm nervous is you relying on me relying on them when I'm working out past my depth.
Ace: You don't know you're own depth.
