Betting Quotes

They head the list of bad to bet on: But I insist they're worse to get on

Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.

Now faith is the turning of dreams into deeds. It is betting your life on the unseen realities

Courtroom : A place where Jesus Christ and Judas Iscariot would be equals, with the betting odds favoring Judas.

I'm not a betting woman, but I have $50 on Secretariat with an old director friend of mine.

I am not normally a betting person, but I say that putting your money on the American people is about as close to a sure bet as you are going to get.

I understand it is 13-8 against Egon Ronay publishing a Good Betting Shop Food Guide by 1997.

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

I'm not a betting man.

I like being tested. I get as scared as anyone. But the feeling of putting yourself on the line, betting on your talent and having it work; that's the most exhilarating feeling in the world.

I'm betting that in two years I'll be talking to you about a film that I shot on an iPhone. It's absolutely coming, I have no doubt in my mind.

To us, investing is the equivalent of going out and betting against the pari-mutuel system. We look for a horse with one chance in two of winning, and that pays three to one. In other words, we're looking for a mispriced gamble. That's what investing is, and you have to know enough to know whether the gamble is mispriced.

Making pictures, for an actress, is like betting, for a gambler. Each time you make a picture you try to analyze why you won or lost.

Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.

Making movies is just like betting on horses at the racetrack.

The rulers of the country generally believed that betting eliminates strikes. Men had to work in order to gamble.

Nobody but you and your caddie care what you do out there, and if your caddie is betting against you, he doesn't care, either.

Gambling is legal and betting is legal, for what I bet.

I'm afraid a lot of people have lost a lot of money over the years betting on me.

Somebody said on television, somebody said last night on television: Nobody has gotten rich betting against Donald Trump. That's in my lifetime. That's not just for this election cycle. I went in, and people said: "He's not gonna run." I've gone through this with you.

Remember, Lady Godiva put all she had on a horse and she lost her shirt!

Everybody's got a worldview. Everybody's betting their life on something. ... You just better know why you're betting what you're betting on.

Sports betting is all about money management, so the most money won on one event is not the most important thing

Women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage

True faith means holding nothing back; it bets everything on the hope of eternity

The trading rules I live by are: 1. Cut losses. 2. Ride winners. 3. Keep bets small. 4. Follow the rules without question. 5. Know when to break the rules.

No dog can go as fast as the money you bet on him.

In most betting shops you will see three windows marked 'Bet Here', but only one window with the legend 'Pay Out'.

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

By gaming we lose both our time and treasure - two things most precious to the life of man.

A dollar won is twice as sweet as a dollar earned.

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.

You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people.

This intelligence, or what I'll call "the wisdom of crowds," is at work in the world in many different guises. It's the reason the Internet search engine Google can scan a billion Web pages and find the one page that has the exact piece of information you were looking for. It's the reason it's so hard to make money betting on NFL games, and it helps explain why, for the past fifteen years, a few hundred amateur traders in the middle of Iowa have done a better job of predicting election results than Gallup polls have.

I am aware of the talent I was gifted and had to execute against it. It is just being very self aware and betting on your best strength.

If in the paddock the owner is surrounded by a herd of young children, don't back his horse. But if the owner is accompanied by a beautiful lady, plunge to the hilt.

You shouldn't have any betting in the locker room at all, whether it's baseball or it's horses. You can't beat the horses. You can't beat any kind of gambling because they have the odds.

Well, I can fake my way around some things, but I don't think I would be good at betting.

The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.

Everything in New Orleans was competitive. People would always be betting on who was the best and the greatest in everything. That's where the battles of music came in.

There are just four kinds of bets. There are good bets, bad bets, bets that you win, and bets that you lose. Winning a bad bet can be the most dangerous outcome of all, because a success of that kind can encourage you to take more bad bets in the future, when the odds will be running against you. You can also lose a good bet no matter how sound the underlying proposition, but if you keep placing good bets, over time, the law of averages will be working for you.

A question that often comes up at times of strategic transformation is, should you pursue a highly focused approach, betting everything on one strategic goal, or should you hedge? ... Mark Twain hit it on the head when he said, Put all of your eggs in one basket and WATCH THAT BASKET.

I don't think I have ever learnt a difficult lesson. Probably sports betting, which I have lost money on. I did lose money on Apple. You'd have thought you could only make money on Apple but I was one of the people who managed to lose.

I don't think people were betting on me, but they were giving me a chance. I think I rode a wave there, by being different in appearance than the girls who preceded me.

Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.

Playing people and position post-flop are definitely my strengths. When I get into a hand, I'm aggressive but I'm also paying attention to my opponent's betting patterns.

They're betting on how long I'll live!" I burst out. "They're not my friends!" "Well, try and pretend!" snaps Effie. Then she composes herself and beams at me. "See, like this. I'm smiling at you even though you're aggravating me.

They're betting on how long I'll live!' I burst out. 'They're not my friends!

All pro sports, as well as the NCAA, should thank God every day we have sports betting here... We have the only agency in the world that regulates the honesty of games.

Obama has paid and will continue to pay dearly for betting on his stimulus package. Because of it, the Bush recession is becoming the Obama recession much faster than it would have had he adopted a more gradual approach to solving economic problems. By jumping in immediately, as he did, in order to increase government spending and pass eight years of Democratic dreams in one day, he made the public expect a solution.