Betting Quotes - Page 4

• If in the paddock the owner is surrounded by a herd of young children, don't back his horse. But if the owner is accompanied by a beautiful lady, plunge to the hilt.

  Robert Morley

  Beautiful, Horse, Children

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

  E. V. Lucas

  Past, Gambling, Race

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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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• He is like some sherry-crazed old dowager who has lost the family silver at roulette, and who now decides to double up by betting the house as well.

  Boris Johnson

  Business, House, Debt

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• I actually used to be a front for the largest national sports-betting syndicate in America.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Sports, America, Syndicate

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• I don't mind when my horse is left at the post. I don't mind when my horse comes up to me in the stands and asks, "Which way do I go?" But when the horse I bet on is at the $2 window betting on another horse in the same race...

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Horse, Humor

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• Too many players focus on physical tells. For both online and live games, you should be focusing more on betting patterns and histories. The ability to figure out your opponent's hand based on his betting pattern is a crucial skill.

  Daniel Negreanu

  Player, Games, Skills

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• The model we established was to give creative people complete creative freedom in exchange for betting on themselves, so they work for the minimums you're allowed to work for, and if the movies work in a big way, everyone does very well. If the movies don't, nobody loses too much money. The benefit to doing all the movies low budget is we can tell different types of stories and take creative risks. The Purge would have been irresponsible to do for $20M, but to do it for $3M makes sense.

  Jason Blum

  Giving, People, Creative

  Source: deadline.com

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• They're betting on how long I'll live!" I burst out. "They're not my friends!" "Well, try and pretend!" snaps Effie. Then she composes herself and beams at me. "See, like this. I'm smiling at you even though you're aggravating me.

  Suzanne Collins

  Long, Trying, Beam

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.110, Scholastic Inc.

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• 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.

  J.B. Pritzker

  Children, Childhood, Focus

  "Only Kids Can Fix This Economy" by J.B. Pritzker, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 26, 2010.

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• We are clearly betting on tablets being both content consumption and production devices.

  Shantanu Narayen

  Tablets, Devices, Consumption

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• Obama has paid and will continue to pay dearly for betting on his stimulus package. Because of it, the Bush recession is becoming the Obama recession much faster than it would have had he adopted a more gradual approach to solving economic problems. By jumping in immediately, as he did, in order to increase government spending and pass eight years of Democratic dreams in one day, he made the public expect a solution.

  Dick Morris

  Dream, Jumping, Eight

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• Mitt Romney is betting big on himself and left no doubt about it.

  Bob Schieffer

  Doubt

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I don't know about you, but I'm betting that when it comes to doing the right and good thing, the Little Sisters of the Poor know better than the regulators at the Department of Health and Human Services.

  Jeb Bush

  Health, Little Sister, Littles

  "JEB: 'no more powerful ... influence on this earth than the Christian conscience in action' - BRADY may miss 6-8 games -- B'DAY: Dana P". Politico Playbook, www.politico.com. May 09, 2015.

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• Playing people and position post-flop are definitely my strengths. When I get into a hand, I'm aggressive but I'm also paying attention to my opponent's betting patterns.

  Daniel Negreanu

  Hands, People, Patterns

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• The biggest thing when you're playing live is that you're sitting across from the player and can get a detailed impression of how they're acting, and whether they're expressing strength or weakness. Online, it's much more about betting patterns and you're using a much narrower range of cues to what they're holding and thinking.

  Phil Ivey

  Player, Thinking, Acting

  Source: cardplayerlifestyle.com

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• If a betting game among a certain number of participants I played long enough, eventually one player will have all the money. If there is any skill involved, it will accelerate the process of concentrating all the stakes in a few hands. Something like this happens in the market. There is a persistent overall tendency for equity to flow from the many to the few. In the long run, the majority loses. The implication for the trader is that to win you have to act like the minority. If you bring normal human habits and tendencies to trading, you'll gravitate toward the majority and inevitably lose.

  William Eckhardt

  Running, Winning, Player

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

  Karel Capek

  Dog, Horse, Humor

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• I'm not a betting man, and even if I was, I certainly wouldn't bet on this! I would not bet on the Best Actor.

  Michael Caine

  Men, Actors, Ifs

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. March 18, 2003.

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• You can walk as carefully as you want through a mine field; it is still a mine field. But it's also true that if you step up to the plate worrying that you're going to strike out, the odds are that you're going to strike out. Not doing a large ambitious work because you're convinced that Danger Lurks Around Every Corner, the old 'I might be dead this time next year,' is a waste of the Inner Radiance that found you. It's like life insurance. It's betting against yourself. It's blowing out your own flame before someone beats you to it.

  Dave Sim

  Life, Work, Odds

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• This intelligence, or what I'll call "the wisdom of crowds," is at work in the world in many different guises. It's the reason the Internet search engine Google can scan a billion Web pages and find the one page that has the exact piece of information you were looking for. It's the reason it's so hard to make money betting on NFL games, and it helps explain why, for the past fifteen years, a few hundred amateur traders in the middle of Iowa have done a better job of predicting election results than Gallup polls have.

  James Surowiecki

  Wisdom, Jobs, Past

  "The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations". Book by James Surowiecki, 2004.

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• All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong, with moral questions; and betting naturally accompanies it. The character of the voters is not staked. I cast my vote, perchance, as I think right; but I am not vitally concerned that right should prevail. I am willing to leave it to the majority.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Character, Thinking, Voting

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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

  Diane Lane

  Thinking, Fake, Would Be

  "Diane Lane, star of Secretariat: 'I do love horses. They are such an expression of joy'". www.mirror.co.uk. December 03, 2010.

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• Delaware is the only state east of the Rockies that is allowed under federal law to offer sports betting.

  Jack Markell

  Sports, Law, East

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• Let me be clear: Any new approach must ensure the integrity of the game. One of my most important responsibilities as commissioner of the NBA is to protect the integrity of professional basketball and preserve public confidence in the league and our sport. I oppose any course of action that would compromise these objectives. But I believe that sports betting should be brought out of the underground and into the sunlight where it can be appropriately monitored and regulated

  Adam Silver

  Basketball, Sports, Integrity

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