Quotes About Betting

Saw that I could make more money in one pot than what was in that entire paycheck selling a week of office supplies

This would have been a great game to watch if we didn't have any money on it.

He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.

The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.

Samuelson, however, hedged his personal bets - by putting some of his own money in Berkshire Hathaway.

You hope your buddies will win so you don't have to loan them any money.

Horse racing is animated roulette.

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

Most amusements only mean trying to win another person's money.

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

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

Mahatma Gandhi claimed that betting was a more pernicious evil than drinking.

Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.

Keep your money in your pocket. Or bet it on a good horse.

In betting on races, there are two elements that are never lacking - hope as hope, and an incomplete recollection of the past.

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

The horse I bet on was so slow, the jockey kept a diary of the trip.

You never realize a dog is a man's best friend until you start betting on horses.

That year the Ribeiro's daffodils seeded early and they seeded cockroaches. Now, ecologically speaking, even a cockroach has its place -- but these suckers bit. That didn't sound Earth-authentic to me. Not that I care, mind you, all I ask is useful. I wasn't betting on that either.

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!

A Wall Street man is greedy, too. No harm in that. Without greed, I always say, there'd be no civilization. But the Wall Street man doesn't have the patience to till the soil or manufacture things. He's clever, but he's not deep. He invests in companies, but he doesn't much care what they are, or what they do. What he wants is to bet on them. Wall Street will always be full of young men, betting.

You can't tell till you bet.

I'm not opposed to the consumption of alcohol. I'm opposed to my kids watching TV at seven o'clock and being told to bet and drink.

The flop bet is a useful tactic for both old-school and new-school players because it can be effective if you are strong, weak, or somewhere in between. Betting out weak on a bluff can allow you to pick up an uncontested pot while betting out strong gives you the opportunity to control the size of the pot.