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Quotes About Betting

I've made $50 million over the years as a movie star, if you'll pardon the expression, and I've given most of it to the bookies.
~ Walter Matthau
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
Michael Beychok: "I became a successful bettor when I started playing the tournaments.
~ Peter T. Fornatale
you should always play a high-priced horse in the last leg.
~ Peter T. Fornatale
Mothers began to bet on their sickly children's lives
~ Peter Vronsky
I'M PLAYING LOOSE — Game: Average 2 players before the flop Action: First to the pot, and raising Players: 9- to 10-handed
~ Phil Gordon
Some players like to add a little more spice to their no-limit Hold 'em game. They add a live blind, also known as a straddle, where the player to the left of the big blind voluntarily puts up twice the big blind before looking at his hole cards. The player in the straddle then has the option to raise it up when the action returns to him.
~ Phil Hellmuth
Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for the house in blackjack.
~ Adam Morrow
As I like to say, if you want to pay attention to a horse race, put two dollars on a horse, and you'll pay enormous attention to all 11 horses in the race.
~ Tom Steyer
We're concerned how gambling and betting affects the NHL game and changes the perception of and challenges the integrity of the NHL game.
~ Gary Bettman
Legalizing betting would create over a hundred thousand new jobs, over $6 billion in wages, and inject $25 billion into our economy.
~ Matt Gaetz
I waited all those years for a title shot, and when I finally got it, I had to pay $20,000 for the opportunity. My purse was only $18,000. So to make money, I had to bet $10,000 on myself at 8-5. That was how it was in those days.
~ Jake LaMotta
You know you have a gambling problem when it's 4 A.M. at the Mirage Sports Book and you're walking around going, 'Hey you get the lacrosse scores?'
~ Artie Lange
A man's gotta make at least one bet a day, else he could be walking around lucky and never know it.
~ Jim Jones
I would like to apologise to anyone who has put a bet on me becoming the next Scotland manager.
~ Neil Warnock
If I'm not going to bet on myself, why would anyone else bet on me.
~ D. B. Sweeney
I bet on baseball in 1987 and 1988.
~ Pete Rose
If you bet big on a daily double, you can hurt yourself.
~ Brad Rutter
I'm not really a betting person. I work too hard for my money to give it away.
~ Boo Weekley
If you're betting all the time, everything is just another bet. You don't even think about the money after you've made the arrangements. You're used to it.
~ Bobby Riggs
I was getting up in the morning and betting on Lithuanian under-20 basketball matches.
~ Paul Merson
When I went up from the youth team to the first team at Internacional, it was a risk - they were almost betting on me making it.
~ Alisson
The aggressive betting on the daily doubles is one of my trademarks.
~ James Holzhauer
I had a system at blackjack.
~ Rene Angelil