Quotes About Odds

Your best chance to get a Royal Flush in a casino is in the bathroom.

So often, the best way to figure out who has a shot at winning is by eliminating those that you're pretty sure don't.

Amateurs look for challenges; professionals look for easy trades. Losers get high from the action; the pros look for the best odds.

The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.

Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds.

They can call me crazy if I fail, all the chance that I need, is one-in-a-million and they can call me brilliant if I succeed.

The chances of you winning are the same as the chances of HELL freezing over.

There is a camaraderie that grows up among those who work with old books and old papers, largely, I suspect, because we understand that we are at odds with the rest of the world: we are travelling backwards, while all those around us are still moving forward.

Suppose you fell over with this fish. Is there anything you could do? Sure. Pray. It'd be like falling out of an airplane without a parachute and hoping you'll land in a haystack. The only thing that'd save you would be God, and since He pushed you overboard in the first place, I wouldn't give a nickel for your chances.

To me, an investment is simply a gamble in which you've managed to tilt the odds in your favor.

By the way, the odds against making a living in the day-trading business are about the same as the odds against making a living at racetracks, blackjack tables, or video poker.

You can't take on the Nadir army with three men, said Harokas. What do you suggest? Four would even the odds.

Rip never dates anyone," she observes. "Why?" I ask. "He doesn't like the odds.

I know the odds are all against us and I know you feel this way too So I know I would rather die trying to know if I could mean something to you

I examined my Liberalism and found it like an addiction to roulette. Here, though the odds are plain, and the certainty of loss apparent to anyone with a knowledge of arithmetic, the addict, failing time and again, is convinced he yet is graced with the power to contravene natural laws. The roulette addict, when he invariably comes to grief, does not examine either the nature of roulette, or of his delusion, but retires to develop a new system, and to scheme for more funds.

31. Meanwhile the One horse on top of the Four horse is paying $82 and the Two horse on top of the Four horse is paying $157, and it is going like this in most of the other combinations involving horse One and horse Two. Then, clearly, horse One is favored over horse Two in the exacta pool. But if horse Two is going off at lower odds in the win pool than horse One, something is out of kilter. You have found a discrepancy and may have a good exacta bet on horse Two (or a good win bet

Eleven men and women, exhausted, battered, and armed with captured weapons, against fifty battle-armored foes desperate to kill them. Every one of those eleven knew exactly what their odds of living through the next three minutes were, but it didn't matter. They were all that stood between six hundred civilians and cold-blooded murder, and Alicia's green eyes were hard as she watched the gaps being punched through the western wall. Make it count, people, she said, almost conversationally.

It wasn't like the spare rooms of immigrants––packed to the rafters with all that they have ever possessed, no matter how defective or damaged, mountains of odds and ends––that stand testament to the fact that they have things now, where before they had nothing.

In tournament play, it's generally advisable to avoid risking large sums of chips in coin flip situations, like pocket sixes versus A-K. After all, the pocket pair is only a very slight heads-up favorite.

In Afghanistan, getting shot at was a regular occurrence. I viewed survival as a numbers game. As point man, every time I entered a Taliban compound first, I played the odds in my head.

This poem is endless, the odds against us are endless, our chances of being alive together statistically nonexistent;

Those were long odds. Really, really long odds. Ridiculously long odds, really. When you have to measure them in astronomical units, it probably isn't a good bet.

You have more choices. Which means that you have much improved odds of making mistakes. You're only human. Once in a while, you're going to screw the pooch.

Five to one, baby One in five No one here gets out alive