Quotes About Betting On Yourself

#1. 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

#2. 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.

Conan O'Brien

#3. Trading is more or less like betting or gambling, but only without the pleasure show of the game.

William C. Brown

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

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

Samuel Butler

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

Shirley Booth

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

W.C. Fields

#10. Horse sense is the instinct that keeps horses from betting on men.

Josephine Tey

#11. If you don't like trading, gambling and betting, then you don't like living.

William C. Brown

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. Fortune-telling was quantum betting, a competitive scrying of variably likely outcomes.

China Mieville

#20. We are clearly betting on tablets being both content consumption and production devices.

Shantanu Narayen

#21. 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

#22. 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

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

Bruce Dern

#24. I once lost a bill betting on the Red Sox,
... But that's another topic.

Diamond D

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. We're betting, at this place and this time, we have people ready for change in the state of Maryland.

Bob Ehrlich

#31. I'd be willing to bet you, if I was a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball.

Pete Rose

#32. Remember. I'm still betting on you girl on fire

Suzanne Collins