Gambling is always seen as a negative thing. It's always associated with back alleys, guns, prison bars, but the most successful gamblers wear suits and carry briefcases.

If you avoid the element that can accompany it, you're fine. Life is a gamble, everything you do requires a gamble, driving a car, taking a flight, eating at Mcdonalds....

Asking a woman to marry you, having kids, you never know what the hell might happen.

Picking a career is a gamble, doing drugs is a gamble drinking is a gamble. Having sex is a gamble

There is no real difference between studying trends and situational statistics in sports, than there is buying and selling stocks. Its all risk verse reward, business bet on things all the time, vaccine makers bet on what strain will be active.

Not many people see it as a skill, they see it as a lifestyle.