Top 100 Quotes About Betting
#1. How'd you come up with cemetery?" Julian asked Nick.
"Call it divine inspiration."
"Yeah, I'm betting God was invoked a lot last night," JD said under his breath.
"Shhh," Kelly begged.
Abigail Roux
#2. I also feel fairly confident that the original Texaco Salvatore was a good family man, with perhaps a propensity for wearing his wife's panties and betting his kids' college money at the track, but otherwise a solid dude.
Rachel Cohn
#4. I'd be willing to bet you, if I was a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball.
Pete Rose
#5. We're betting, at this place and this time, we have people ready for change in the state of Maryland.
Bob Ehrlich
#6. When Hitler declared war on the United States, he was betting that German soldiers, raised up in the Hitler Youth, would always out fight American soldiers, brought up in the Boy Scouts. He lost that bet. The Boy Scouts had been taught how to figure their way out of their own problems.
Stephen E. Ambrose
#7. I'll tell you something else too; by the time we're through we shall have had all we can stand of this North woman. I wouldn't mind betting she thinks we have nothing better to do than run around in circles while she gets on with this three-act problem play of hers.
Georgette Heyer
#8. 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.
George Steinbrenner
#9. Have you ever heard of the law of large numbers? If you carry on betting large sums day after day, then sooner or later you are bound to win everything back. As far
Boris Akunin
#10. The lawyer refused to tell me my brother's name, and my colleagues started a betting pool. The leading candidate: John Travolta. I secretly hoped for a literary descendant of Henry James - someone more talented than I: someone brilliant without even trying.
Mona Simpson
#11. I once lost a bill betting on the Red Sox,
... But that's another topic.
Diamond D
#12. Sports betting is all about money management, so the most money won on one event is not the most important thing.
Bruce Dern
#13. 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.
Elisabeth Rohm
#14. As far as the gambling debts on there, not one cent was any type of sports betting. It's just something obviously I'm not proud of because it drags a lot of other people into this than I'd want. It's something I'm continuing to deal with.
Darren McCarty
#15. We are clearly betting on tablets being both content consumption and production devices.
Shantanu Narayen
#16. Fortune-telling was quantum betting, a competitive scrying of variably likely outcomes.
China Mieville
#17. Females and males watched Rhysand throughout the hall - and the shadowsinger and I made a game of betting on who, exactly, would work up the nerve to invite the High Lord home.
Sarah J. Maas
#18. I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.
J. B. Pritzker
#19. You had to have a unanimous jury verdict, and one percent of contributory negligence barred all recovery. It was so satisfying to realize I could do it. And I'll tell you what motivated me: competitiveness. I was betting on me. That's what a contingent-fee lawyer does.
Joe Jamail
#20. The number of realists who are betting that both the 'economy gets healthy soon' and this government gets spending under control is a tiny group, indeed.
Bob Beauprez
#21. He wore eyeliner and gauged his ears and bought intentionally offensive t-shirts off the internet, which he would then wear to the shop, betting Jack that today was the day he'd get punched in the mouth by a swamper.
Ania Ahlborn
#22. 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.
Lee Trevino
#23. You're better off betting on a horse than betting on a man. A horse may not be able to hold you tight, but he doesn't wanna wander from the stable at night.
Betty Grable
#24. If you don't like trading, gambling and betting, then you don't like living.
William C. Brown
#25. Horse sense is the instinct that keeps horses from betting on men.
Josephine Tey
#26. Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
W.C. Fields
#27. I'm not a betting woman, but I have $50 on Secretariat with an old director friend of mine.
Shirley Booth
#28. What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
Samuel Butler
#29. It's one thing to bet on red or black and know that you are betting on red or black. It's another to bet on a form of red and not to know it.
Michael Lewis
#30. I could describe my career in two words: who knew. I was on the path to becoming a professional baseball player, but I got injured in college. When I decided to move out to L.A. to try acting, nobody was betting on me, not even my family. But it's always been that way for me; nothing has come easy.
Shemar Moore
#31. He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose ...
George Eliot
#32. Making movies is just like betting on horses at the racetrack.
Maureen O'Hara
#34. Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.
George Soros
#35. How great a quality is horse sense! Someone has defined it as that something which keeps horses from betting on men!
Vincent Massey
#36. I was betting on cockfights in the Filipino workers' camps when I was 11.
Susanna Moore
#37. Hold'em - like life itself - has its defining moment. It's the flop. When you see the flop, you're looking at 71 percent of your hand, and the cost is only a single round of betting.
Lou Krieger
#38. The rulers of the country generally believed that betting eliminates strikes. Men had to work in order to gamble.
Michael Ondaatje
#39. You can't just keep recycling revivals. And you can't keep betting on the efforts of guys like me who've been around. You have to take the next step and bet on the next generation.
Harold Prince
#40. No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.
Amar Bose
#42. The rules of the betting are intelligent: recent events and the current context have the most weight in determining an interpretation. When no recent event comes to mind, more distant memories govern.
Daniel Kahneman
#43. there is a dense crowd; outside the Betting Rooms it is like a great struggle at a theatre door - in the days of theatres; or at the vestibule of the Spurgeon temple - in the days of Spurgeon. An
Charles Dickens
#44. In betting on races, there are two elements that are never lacking - hope as hope, and an incomplete recollection of the past.
E. V. Lucas
#45. He curled his finger under her chin as he rasped, "I'm goin' tae get it right this time, you know."
"I believe that, Scot." She gazed up at him with all the love she felt. "That's why you're still the dark horse I'm betting on.
Kresley Cole
#46. Dude, you ever taste harpy's blood? We're rarer than shit so I'm betting not. Want to go out for a drink sometime? If you put out, I might let you have a sip.
Thea Harrison
#48. Goldman Sachs and other investment banks understood the ensuing problem so well that they began betting against the very mortgage-backed securities they were underwriting!
Douglas Rushkoff
#49. We are far betting dealing with the big losses-death, divorce, debt, and debilitating illness-than with the daily onslaught of little losses.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#50. 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.
Edward Burns
#51. Sometimes betting a long shot's the only way to win big.
Matt R. Lohr
#52. 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.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#53. Choosing friends based on how much money they have is like betting on a horse because you like its saddle.
Stephen Smoke
#54. There are some people who will surprise you with their perseverance ... People who survive through the tears ... Strong spirits who prove you wrong if you make the mistake of betting against them.
Steve Maraboli
#55. Everybody knows that England is the world of betting men, who are of a higher class than mere gamblers: to bet is in the English temperament.
Jules Verne
#56. Are there rules about betting on baseball games? Yeah
you have to stay away from the Padres.
James Siegel
#57. As each year and debate passes, more broadband companies will start to see that their future lies not in restricting an open Internet but in betting on it.
Marvin Ammori
#58. You never realize a dog is a man's best friend until you start betting on horses.
Karel Capek
#59. My character at 'Mel's diner' was involved in betting on the horses and all that.
Vic Tayback
#60. Political advocacy plastered next to Bible verses makes me anxious. I'm not a betting woman, but if I was I'd say that Jesus is not a member of either political party.
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#61. There aren't a lot of ironclad rules of family life, but here's one: No matter how much your parents deny it - and here's betting they deny it a lot - they have a favorite child. And if you're a parent, so do you.
Jeffrey Kluger
#62. I'm not really a betting person. I work too hard for my money to give it away.
Boo Weekley
#64. They're betting on how long I'll live!' I burst out. 'They're not my friends!
Suzanne Collins
#65. Being alive is far betting than being in Limbo.
Mike Townsend
#66. Sitting and watching a game show, or betting on your lucky numbers is not the price that most of the top 1% paid to become rich
Robert Kiyosaki
#67. Inside where nothing shows, I am the essence of a man spinning double-headed coins, and betting against himself in private atonement for an unremembered past.
Tom Stoppard
#68. And really, how insulting is it that to suggest that the best thing women can do is raise other people to do incredible things? I'm betting some of those women would like to do great things of their own.
Jessica Valenti
#69. Whether she realised it yet or not, this betting stuff and the constant conflict between us was foreplay.
Suzanne Wright
#70. We still have to keep betting on markets like America that are full of opportunities to grow, even if we have to work our heads off to do it.
Jose Andres
#71. 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.
Donald Trump
#72. the Kamchatka Peninsula." "What do you say?" "We're betting if the man and the picture matched, neither was Kyle Donovan." Jake's eyes narrowed. "Bad news." "For Donovan, certainly. He probably got that chunk of Mother Russia they offered you. But bad for us? We don't know.
Elizabeth Lowell
#73. I admitted I bet on baseball, but I wasn't suspended from baseball for betting on baseball.
Pete Rose
#74. Too many players focus on physical tells. For both online and live games, you should be focusing more on betting patterns and histories. The ability to figure out your opponent's hand based on his betting pattern is a crucial skill.
Daniel Negreanu
#75. A gamble. Everything was a damn gamble. Betting against luck and the Fates, again and again, and again. She kept walking, waiting for the bullet.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#77. You did not fear death. You stepped in its path, but without really desiring it: how can one desire something one doesn't know? You didn't deny life but affirmed your taste for the unknown, betting that if something existed on the other side, it would be better than here.
Edouard Leve
#78. I stared at them. 'Every time what?' I said, as Nathan put the money into Will's hand.
'He said you'd be reading a book. I said you'd be watching telly. He always wins.'
My sandwich stilled at my lips. 'Always?
You've been betting on how boring my life is?
Jojo Moyes
#79. Think of social media as the Internet. I can't think of anyone betting against the Internet in 2012.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#80. we were never meant to be what we are or where we are, we are looking for an escape, some music from the sun, the girl we never found. we are betting on the miracle again there before the purple mountains as the horses parade past so much more beautiful than our lives.
Charles Bukowski
#81. I guess we both lose the bet. What bet Thomas asked entering the room.
Boxers or briefs Jeanne Louise answered. I was betting boxers and Elspeth thought briefs. Instead he went commando!!
So be warned ladies, don't assume they are wearing any undies!!
Lynsay Sands
#82. The idea of a federal betting parlor on atrocities and terrorism is ridiculous and it's grotesque.
Ron Wyden
#83. 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.
Danny Barker
#84. Betting stimulates the caring glands. That is where there is so much caring at the racetrack.
Larry Merchant
#85. Courtroom : A place where Jesus Christ and Judas Iscariot would be equals, with the betting odds favoring Judas.
H.L. Mencken
#86. 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.
Meyer Lansky
#87. LAURA ATCHISON, Author of "What Would A Wise Woman Do?", on DANGEROUS ODDS by Marisa Lankester:
"Truth is always wilder than fiction.
Hold on to your hats and enjoy this page turning look inside the world of sports betting from a good girl gone bad for love.
Laura Atchison
#88. I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head - big darkness, soon come - but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them.
Hunter S. Thompson
#89. Remember, girl on fire," he says, "I'm still betting on you.
Suzanne Collins
#90. Only institutions that go about the old-fashioned business of taking in deposits from customer A and lending them out to customer B should be called banks. The rest should call themselves what they are. 'Parlors' would be appropriate, or 'dens' - words more suitable to venerable betting pursuits.
Graydon Carter
#91. Jesus said, "I am the way [to heaven]." I'm betting that he's not a liar. I'm betting that he told the truth.
Rick Warren
#92. I bet on the game of baseball and I bet on my team, even the mistakes I made, I have to take a different look at someone betting against their own team ... that's throwing the game.
Pete Rose
#93. 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.
Daniel Negreanu
#94. The price for sitting and watching game shows and betting on lottery is that the vast majority of the viewers will never become rich
Robert Kiyosaki
#95. The financial crisis of 2008 was not caused by investment banks betting against the housing market in 2007. It was caused by the fact that too few investors - including all of the big investment banks - bet too heavily on the housing market in the years before 2007.
James Surowiecki
#96. Betting on the success of innovative technologies in the marketplace can carry all the uncertainty and risk that betting on the next card in the deck does at a blackjack table in Las Vegas. There is a factor of randomness that must be factored in, but precisely how to do so is anyone's guess.
Henry Petroski
#97. You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people.
Will Rogers
#98. Truth is always wilder than fiction. Hold on to your hats and enjoy this page turning
look inside the world of sports betting from a good girl gone bad for love.
Laura Atchison, Author of What Would A Wise Woman Do?
Laura Atchison
#99. I don't mind when my horse is left at the post. I don't mind when my horse comes up to me in the stands and asks, "Which way do I go?" But when the horse I bet on is at the $2 window betting on another horse in the same race ...
Henny Youngman
#100. I can't believe how much money I lose betting on sports. "sucker born every minute". That's me!
Doyle Brunson
