- Hips: Listen, I'm gonna tell you something I never told a customer before. Personally, I never made a bet in my life. You know why? Because I've observed firsthand what with seeing the different kinds of people that are addicted to gambling - what we would call degenerates. I've noticed there's one thing that makes all of them the same. You know what that is?
- Axel Freed: Yes. They're all looking to lose.
- Hips: You mean you know that!
- Hips: [following the big college basketball game, in which Spencer Lewis has shaved points for the Mafia to pay off Axel's gambling debt] ... Okay, we're in the clear. In fact, you might just have a couple of favors coming your way.
- Axel Freed: How's that? What do you mean?
- Hips: What are you, naive? This Lewis kid's got maybe a year or two left before he makes the NBA. You think my friends are gonna let him just slip through their fingers, after a night like this?
- Axel Freed: He did it for ME. He won't do it again.
- Hips: Ah, quit lying to yourself. Once you ain't a virgin no more, you're a whore till you die.
- Axel Freed: [dealer goes to reveal card] Hold it!
- Billie: You're crazy.
- Axel Freed: Blessed.
- Axel Freed: Double it.
- Las Vegas Dealer: You want to double on eighteen sir?
- Axel Freed: Yes.
- [pauses]
- Axel Freed: Gimme the three.