Top 55 Betting Quotes

In No Limit hold’em tournaments, size your bets based on your opponent’s skill level. You can cut corners by betting wisely – save a little here and make a little extra there.

Don’t try to make a big bluff on the turn with a drawing hand. With only one card to come, even a big draw is an underdog against a made hand. Keep the betting small.

Betting against entrepreneurs who are changing the world has never been a profitable endeavor.

Both traditional broadcasters and podcasters are betting heavily on the growth of voice-driven technology and so-called smart speakers, the theory being that it is as easy to ask Amazon’s Alexa to play you the ‘Guardian Books’ podcast as it is to get it to play Capital FM.

Well, I can fake my way around some things, but I don’t think I would be good at betting.

The Chinese government does not like people betting against the yuan.

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.

Making movies is just like betting on horses at the racetrack.

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.

The problem with the focus on speculators, as was demonstrated during the financial crisis, is that it tends to divert attention from the real villains. During the financial crisis, the villains were the actions of the banks, not the speculators betting on bank share prices.

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.

You can’t interview Pete Rose and not ask about betting on the Reds and being banned from baseball.

The second-worst thing in the world is betting on a golf game and losing. The worst is not betting at all.

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.

No one ever won betting against Nancy Pelosi. You’ve got to give her credit, no matter what you think of her.

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.

Since young people would much rather play fast-action, rapidly advancing video games, and gambling laws for slot machines and roulette tables haven’t changed much since the 1950s, look for casinos to build large video game tournament centers and allow people to bet on the action, similar to betting on college basketball.

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.

I stopped playing online poker due to a combination of the UIGEA legislation and realizing that I could make more money with less effort by betting sports.

The ban on sports betting does exactly what Prohibition did. It makes criminals rich.

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

Betting shops have a big impact on encouraging on-street drinking and can often become a centre for disorder and anti-social behaviour.

If I were a betting man, the odds are that Obama’s White House and Justice Department will double down on their gun-control agenda by edict.

Swallow your pride and be completely objective about your own poker skill level. Only then can you implement an effective betting strategy.

I’m a betting man. I like to gamble everywhere, everything I do.

The aggressive betting on the daily doubles is one of my trademarks.

Tennis is a big sport when it comes to betting. Obviously, we as a sport try incredibly hard to keep it clean, and I think we do a very good job with that.

I’m no different from anyone else but I don’t trust giving my details online, so any betting I do, I go into a bookies.

Most major sports benefit from the fact that betting by the general public fuels fan interest and boosts television ratings. The Super Bowl and ‘March Madness’ are prime examples. But sports other than boxing draw a clear line where betting by participants is concerned.

I was getting up in the morning and betting on Lithuanian under-20 basketball matches.

I understand why offices need to have office parties. I understand why offices need to have betting pools. No matter what the job, you need things to foster camaraderie and let off steam.

I hope that my ‘Jeopardy’ run helps destigmatize sports betting because I have certainly dealt with some stigmas.

Obviously I bet on games I officiated. I passed on information based on the meetings that the referees were having, and based on what the league office wanted us to call in playoff games. With that being said, I was able to win at a high percentage when we were betting on NBA games.

Ultimately, the issue is not whether you are pro- or anti-sports betting. You begin, from my standpoint, from the premise that it is going to continue to exist, and if it is going to continue to exist, should it be shoved underground, or should it be regulated?

I’m betting 100,000 that I’m the fastest man on the planet.

It was every day on the horses and every single race. I was betting on anything; horses, dogs, virtual racing, roulette.

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.

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.

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.

I wouldn’t recommend sports betting as a career. It requires a ton of effort and mastery of many different skills, and successful bettors are unwilling to teach you because you would be their competition.

As a general rule, the more precious the chips you’d consider betting, the more you should lean toward playing it safe. Check it down; cautious play is usually the recipe for long-term success in poker.

I am not normally a betting person, but I say that putting your money on the American people is about as close to a sure bet as you are going to get.

Gambling is legal and betting is legal, for what I bet.

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.

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.

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.

I got caught up with gambling at the golf course, the backroom card games at the casinos with buddies there, and eventually betting on sporting events. I think it became a situation where I got consumed by it and loved every minute of it.

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.

The important thing to remember, if you are trying something that is an innovation, is not to think too much about it. Because if you take too long, by the time you get there, the world will have changed. You take a risk, and if it doesn’t work, you make a change. We are not betting our lives on it.

On the golf course, playing cards, running to the casinos, betting on college and pro football, it keeps spilling over to the next step, the next step, the next step. I basically started giving people information that I was receiving in the locker room, injury reports.

We’re concerned how gambling and betting affects the NHL game and changes the perception of and challenges the integrity of the NHL game.

I am betting on Google’s team to be the epicenter of future breakthroughs.

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.

Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.