Wagering Quotes

We look for a horse with one chance in two of winning and which pays you three to one.

All gambling is the telling of a fortune, but of a monstrously depleted fortune, empty of everything save one numerical circumstance, shorn of all such richness as a voyage across the water, a fair man that loves you, a dark woman that means you harm.

I'm not a gambling-man. I have never bet a dollar in all my life.

No horse can go as fast as the money you put on it.

Everybody knows that England is the world of betting men, who are of a higher class than mere gamblers: to bet is in the English temperament.

Of course I gamble, to make the games interesting. But five hundred dollars a game, tops. Or sometimes a thousand. No heart attack bets.

I like to bet on as close to a sure thing as you can find.

I love to gamble!

I backed horse last week at ten to one. It came in at quarter past four.

I'm not really a gambler, but I'll bet on the Super Bowl or some boxing. Something I feel comfortable with.

Relatively, a very small percentage of betting takes place on hockey and even baseball because of the nature of the game and the scoring.

If you bet big on a daily double, you can hurt yourself.

I bet on a horse at ten-to-one. It didn't come in until half-past five.

I'm not allowed to bet, but if I could, my money would be on you.

At the Mirage Sportsbook, you can get a line on 2 kid playing wiffleball in the backyard in Minnesota

The lifeblood of organized crime is gambling, and although I have no scruples about a couple of fellows making a wager, the fact of the matter is that organized crime thrives on illicit income from gambling.

I love being a punter.

My character at 'Mel's diner' was involved in betting on the horses and all that.

Hathaway!" Stan barked, coming from the direction of the field. "Nice of you to join us. Get in there now! You're lucky you aren't one of the first ones, " he growled.People were even making bets about whether you'd show. " "Really?" I asked cheerfully. "What kind of odds are there on that? Because I can still change my mind and put down my own bet. Make a little pocket money.

No bill that authorizes slot machines or casinos will pass my desk.

Persons whose wagers depend upon how particular selected athletes perform in actual sporting events stand in no different stead than persons who wager on the outcome of any sporting event in which they are not participants.

It's one thing to ask your bank manager for an overdraft to buy 500 begonias for the borders in Haslemere, but quite another to seek financial succour to avail oneself of the 5-2 they're offering on lie de Bourbon for the St Leger.

I never really gambled - certainly not playing poker. I'd casually bet on a football game or joined a pool.

I love online gambling.

My father was a racetrack bookie.