Betting Quotes - Page 3

• Generally, a betting system for which each wager depends only on present resources and present probability of success is known as a Markov betting system.

  Richard Arnold Epstein

  Wagers, Resources, Probability

  "The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic, Revised Edition". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, Chapter Three, Fundamental Principles Of A Theory Of Gambling, 1977.

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• I'm not the betting kind.

  Terry Gross

  Kind

  "Terry Gross and Bill O'Reilly: Round Two". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. September 21, 2004.

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• In this acausal world, scientists are helpless. Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic. Scientists turn reckless and mutter like gamblers who cannot stop betting. Scientists are buffoons, not because they are rational but because the cosmos is irrational. Or perhaps it is not because the cosmos is irrational but because they are rational. Who can say which, in an acausal world?

  Alan Lightman

  Science, Cosmos, World

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.29, Vintage

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• Many a man has walked up to the opportunity for which he has long been preparing himself, looked it full in the face, and then begun to get cold feet... when it comes to betting on yourself and your power to do the thing you know you must do or write yourself down a failure, you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.

  B. C. Forbes

  Writing, Men, Opportunity

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• Are there rules about betting on baseball games? Yeah--you have to stay away from the Padres.

  James Siegel

  Baseball, Games, Yeah

  James Siegel (2005). “Detour”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• The price for sitting and watching game shows and betting on lottery is that the vast majority of the viewers will never become rich

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Games, Majority, Sitting

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• I'm searching for the perfect swing. I'm searching for something that's not there. I tried twetny different things today and nobody else out there would have done that. This game is too tough. If I'd have known, I'd have taken up tennis or something. I have a chance. But if you're a betting guy don't bet on me.

  Johnny Miller

  Taken, Swings, Games

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• The perils, rewards, punishments, and fulfillments of an adventure must be real, or the adventure is only a shifting and heartless nightmare. If I bet I must be made to pay, or there is no poetry in betting. If I challenge I must be made to fight, or there is no poetry in challenging. If I vow to be faithful I must be cursed when I am unfaithful, or there is no fun vowing.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Fun, Real, Adventure

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• The day you spend hoping, the day you spend waiting, the day you spend in despair, is a day in your life as much as the tomorrow you hope for, but which may never come, so betting today on tomorrow is always a bad bet.

  Merle Shain

  Waiting, Live In The Moment, Despair

  Merle Shain (1973). “Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others”

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• In an ideal world, one populated by vegetarians and Esperanto speakers, derivatives would be used for one thing only: reducing levels of risk. The list of individual traders who have lost more than a billion dollars at a time betting on derivatives is not short.

  John Lanchester

  Business, Risk, Lists

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

  William C. Brown

  Gambling, Games, Pleasure

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

  William C. Brown

  Gambling, Trading, Ifs

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• When you talk about locker room betting, we bet on everything... It's no different than anyone else's office pool. Money changes hands in the locker room; it's whatever you want.

  Albert Belle

  Hands, Office, Different

  Albert Belle (1998). “Don't Call Me Joey: The Wit and Wisdom of Albert Belle”, p.21, ECW Press

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• The individual skill of the player determines the outcome, unlike betting on the horses or betting on the lottery. It's not an individual betting against the house and that's an important distinction.

  John Pappas

  Horse, Player, Skills

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• The best bet for the horses would be to stop betting on the Derby and other horse races, and to stop breeding, racing and killing thoroughbreds altogether

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Horse, Animal, Race

  "Thoroughbreds: From Elite to Meat" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 5, 2011.

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• Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Government, Years, Gold

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• I bet on the game of baseball and I bet on my team, even the mistakes I made, I have to take a different look at someone betting against their own team... that's throwing the game.

  Pete Rose

  Baseball, Mistake, Team

  "Pete Rose Answers Viewer Questions". Online Q & A, abcnews.go.com. January 12.

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• To spend our days betting on three-legged horses with beautiful names

  Bohumil Hrabal

  Beautiful, Horse, Names

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• Fortunately my wife is understanding. When I come home from the races she never asks any questions, if I tell her I just ate a $380 hot dog.

  Tim Conway

  Dog, Home, Gambling

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• 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.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Basketball, Heart, Ncaa

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• 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

  Appreciation, Men, Careers

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.107, Penguin

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• I admitted I bet on baseball, but I wasn't suspended from baseball for betting on baseball.

  Pete Rose

  Baseball, Suspended

  "Rose on gambling, baseball and the Hall". Interview with Graham Bensinger, www.espn.com. Januray 19, 2006.

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• 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.

  James Surowiecki

  Years, Facts, Financial

  "The Goldman Hearings: Levin vs. Wall Street". www.newyorker.com. April 27, 2010.

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• Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Gambling, Casinos, Quitting

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• I am not one of the people who believe that the main reason why a chap becomes a bookmaker is because he is too scared to steal and too heavy to become a jockey.

  Noel Whitcomb

  Believe, Gambling, People

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