Betting Quotations

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. But it's always been that way for me; nothing has come easy.

I was betting on cockfights in the Filipino workers' camps when I was 11.

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.

Mr. Soros, the chairman of Soros Fund Management, is best-known as a speculator, philanthropist and political activist. He made a fortune by doing things such as betting against Britain's currency in 1992 and Thailand's in 1997. A Hungarian refugee, he has spent millions to promote democracy and learning in post-Soviet nations.

Some companies are already investing in women and thereby betting on a brighter future - for a workforce just waiting to blossom, for emerging economies whose development depends on this new talent, and, of course, for their own financial growth.

Betting on the success of innovative technologies in the marketplace can carry all the uncertainty and risk that betting on the next card in the deck does at a blackjack table in Las Vegas. There is a factor of randomness that must be factored in, but precisely how to do so is anyone's guess.

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

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.

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.

Think of social media as the Internet. I can't think of anyone betting against the Internet in 2012.

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

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

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.

The number of realists who are betting that both the 'economy gets healthy soon' and this government gets spending under control is a tiny group, indeed.

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.

The possibilities are really limitless. The key will be finding the betting opportunities that will suit the player, whether he?s watching hockey, basketball or golf.

Whether the NFL wants to admit it, betting is also a part of why people watch football, ... I think fantasy football is probably a variation of that.

We're going to Las Vegas because we think it's a great destination city. They have removed the All-Star events from the betting line, and we think that we have no problem with people who want to go there and gamble.

Unless the outcome contains a major negative surprise, the underlying firm tone of the dollar is expected to be sustained, as the market is now betting on continued interest rate hikes in the US.

Yep, those are set up especially for the Super Bowl. They're betting both sides of the game. They're betting all the props. It's a beautiful scene here.

We're really betting on two horses: We will continue to support Visual Studio.Net, and in the non-.Net world, we're going to be using Eclipse.

We're still betting $3 the Swans, but I can see that shortening.

We're seeing a lot of sharp action on the under, and not as much money from the betting public on the over as I had hoped. I'm glad I opened it 48 and not 49.

When it comes to betting on yourself... you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.

were a betting man....yes, you will see Phoenix in this movie.

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.

When you put your investment in content - which is what we have done and will continue to do - you're not betting on any one technology. You're betting on them all.

Senators are betting that pandering to the public with billions in election-year promises will pay off more than they lose by cutting the fiscal conservatives in their own party off at the knees.

Money is starting to shift to insurers. They are attracting buyers who are betting on the inflated value of their assets.

Money is starting to shift to insurers, ... They are attracting buyers who are betting on the inflated value of their assets.

Right now, a number of members are betting on the public losing interest and getting away without any new reforms.

On his person he had a list of video poker machine locations and betting sheets.

Nobody buy you and your caddie care what you do out there, and if your caddie is betting against you, he doesn't care, either.

I would bet - well, I'm not a betting man - but I feel 99.9 per cent confident that I had possession of the ball and that I was down by contact. I went over to the official and told him I had possession, that you guys have got to review that.

I would have gone broke betting that she wouldn't do it.

I don't even really care, to be totally honest. I'm really concerned about the lineup. I know I'm not betting on getting any hits off him, I'm just trying to keep the game as close as I can to give my team a chance.

I?d be surprised if -- even if they include a compatibility mode -- it could do both a/g and g at the same time. I could see some interaction problems with n if you also want to support b/g. My guess is they are betting on equipment replacement, not necessarily backwards compatibility to existing systems.

IBM is betting the company around the industry getting behind open standards.

Bush is gambling that by replacing two White House staffers he will be able to kick start what many view as the worst presidency and most incompetent White House in the nation's history. There is no evidence yet that his gamble is paying off, no reported improvement to his approval rating. So what Bush will do next is what makes betting on this prop very interesting!

I for one have woken up in the middle of the night thinking about it, wondering how I should vote, ... This is a vote over the chief justice of the Supreme Court ... this isn't just rolling the dice, it's betting the whole house.

Given the big discount to other optical equipment manufacturing stocks, we think the downside is limited. We think it is worth buying the stock and are betting that management will deliver.

Given such high copper prices, no traders dare to put on short positions, and that's why volume reduced. Some traders pulled investments from copper into aluminum, betting gains in aluminum might be bigger.

From a betting odds perspective, what is the most unlikely thing to have happened in football?

If all these people are betting all this money, they have found other ways to deposit funds into their accounts at internet gambling sites. If that many Americans enjoy this activity, nothing Congress can do will stop them.

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.

He welcomes the discourse because he understands there are two sides to every trade and people need to understand why there are traders who are betting against them. I can't stress that enough.

We can expect a jobless rate of 9 percent by the summer, and that can have a positive impact on consumers confidence and on spending. The government's betting it will have a psychological impact.

We think he made money betting on baseball. And people are stupid. They say, 'Why do you care if he bet on his own team?' Well, that is the point, you care because that night when he is betting he brings in his best relief pitcher. The next night when he isn't betting he can bring in anybody. The game is corrupted.

What you're getting now with the stock where it is trading, there is a lot of news-event volatility, you get people betting on the next move... they're basically just trading on the momentum being generated by the news.

has disclosed serious integrity issues surrounding the accurate disclosure to the betting public of weights of jockeys and had brought to justice the officials involved in this fraud.

Knowing there's not going to be another opportunity tomorrow to buy the next player, you have a lot of people betting on this round right now.

Italy and Spain were very different -- you could make a lot of money betting on specific countries.

I think with some of the new trainers and some of the other guys who have been coming here, it's going to be a fun meet with plenty of betting opportunities.

I think the bigger the movie is, the harder it is to maintain the idea of an auteur. You're servicing something beyond just your own vision. Whenever there's a lot of money on the line, it is your responsibility to make sure that you're doing your best to have people not lose their money and to actually win by betting on it.

I think that was before he saw us play and before he saw Georgia play. Y'all go ask him now who he thinks is gonna win it, OK? Ask him who he's picking, and ask him how much he'd be betting on it if he could bet.

I went back to school simply because it was a weak job market. I was betting that it would recover by the time I got out.

Japanese authorities seem very comfortable with the value of the yen and investors are keen to buy. Given that there are questions about the U.S. rate cycle, people are becoming more confident in betting on the yen.

People are betting on strong earnings growth for miners, and the argument is that metal prices will stay firm, if not climb up,

People are really stretched. They are banking on everything turning out right for them. That they won't lose their jobs, that they won't run into unexpected expenses. They're betting that the housing market will continue to appreciate.

Our position is not a moral crusade against gambling. It's just about betting on basketball.

Oracle is betting on PeopleSoft stumbling sometime next year but that's unlikely,

People have done very well betting on the dollar in the past year and they're not going to give up just yet, but there is some nervousness. People are cutting their positions.

People have been betting against them for a long time. This backslide is just something to take advantage of. There is substance to these companies.

People mostly see it as a sporting event. In a way, it doesn't matter if they've seen the movies. They watch it so they can win their office betting pools. They watch it to see stars make fool of themselves, or show their insecurities by gushing: 'You LIKE me!

Spread betting is growth business, and growth in the last six months has actually accelerated as stockbrokers have been referring clients to IG to use its platform.

Sports betting is the rock of Gibraltar. It's American, like apple pie. That will always be there. People love to bet on it. People love to bet on their football games.

Sports betting is going to continue to steadily grow. Some market analysts suggest a 10-20% growth per year.

Some investors are betting that Hong Kong won't follow the U.S. rate hikes in May and are moving ahead to buy while prices are still reasonable.

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

Lilly has been more innovative than most other companies but done worse at execution. There's betting on a pipeline that hasn't panned out in the past.

It follows a set of regulars that come to the Wrigley Field bleachers every Chicago Cubs game. Most of them have quirky little personalities; most of them are addicted in some way, shape or form to gambling. There is a lot of gambling going on, betting on just about everything from who's going to score next to who's going to get on first base to who's going to catch a fly ball.

It does not appear to us that there has been betting on hockey games at all. I think it's all about hockey; it's all about our sport right now and nothing else. ... This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be on a world stage and playing hockey, and I don't think anything will overshadow the Olympics.

I think he's looked a little flat in the slalom, but he has a way of stepping up on race day. I wouldn't be surprised to see him get some medals. I've been betting on Bode for years.

Maybe some of their money managers think, like I do, that the stock is cheap because they aren't going bankrupt. Morgan Stanley has a huge asset-management business, so it's not like they're betting the ranch on GM.

The acquisition extends our cross-selling opportunities and further strengthens our management team with US-facing sports betting expertise.

My bet is that others are experiencing the same things. I am also betting that most people aren't even doing any checking,

Most betting people wouldn't have thought we'd win this series. From Day 1, we've preached 'team' and that's very hard to do in professional sports because a lot of them have agendas -- to get out of here and to the NBA.

We are betting the bank, building our future on convergence,

While betting on football or other sports may be the pervasive issue, it in no way justifies poor judgment or otherwise alleged inappropriate conduct. We will take this issue very seriously and will monitor the proceedings closely.

We're betting he's the next CEO of Oracle so you better get to know him if you don't already,

We're delighted, and I'm betting millions of Nationals fans are too. This clears one of the last hurdles in the process and gets us ready to finally break ground on a ballpark that gives the Nationals a new home and sparks an exciting economic revival in southeast.

We are the first betting business that can go global.

We have to keep things in perspective a little bit. They're (alleging that there has been) betting on football, not an uncommon thing. I don't think we should get too carried away with throwing people under the bus. It's an unfortunate situation and something that will be taken pretty seriously. Wayne Gretzky is a pretty well-respected guy and he deserves that.

True investing is making a commitment to own a company, to participate in its business over the long term and not betting on short-term movements in its stock price. To change our core discipline would dilute our efforts and all that we believe in.

You have the Baby Boomers having the resources to buy condominiums, betting on the increase in value in the next six months, ... That activity may be the first to feel the crunch if the housing bubble bursts.

We'll let the whole year play out ... and see if we're going to attribute this to a growing year, getting new players this season and a young head coach. We'd have to build quickly next year, though. It's very hard to get a quality player (in free agency). Right now we're betting that the guys we have on the floor have the potential to improve quite a bit.

We are seeing interest in the March and April 15 calls. They (investors) are betting that the earnings will be a surprise to the upside.

We are able to make this commitment because we have confidence in our betting lines - we're not waiting to see how lines open, we're setting the markets. Everybody bets, but the more time we can give our players to consider their positions the better. Posting our betting lines the afternoon before next day's game provides our customers with a real edge. And our in-game betting takes the action to a whole other level, although it can be tough to type while jumping up and down screaming for your team!

We're down in betting and I'm very disappointed, ... We did everything we could do to improve the racing product. Everybody told me a year ago it was all about purses.

The rates prospects are giving courage to people. They want to buy one day before the market rises and many are betting that it will rise more tomorrow.

Traditionally, all those (contestants) are pros with a proven ability to pick winners. Some of those guys, or their clients, are making money betting with us. I figure if I can make some money off them, then, hey, I'm a better person for it.

Toymakers are bringing back proven hits because it's less risky than betting on something new,

The cricket hasn't knocked horseracing off the top as leading sport in terms of total betting turnover, but on days when the cricket has been on everything else has taken a back seat. There's been an enormous amount of interest during any given Test. There's massive trading of positions all day. People have their computers on next to their televisions. They bet literally hundreds of times in the course of a match.

There are a lot of people betting on the euro so there's not a lot of room for a further rally. There aren't any fresh reasons to sell the dollar after a big move last week.

We would note that given the size of GM, there are relatively few players that could pull such a deal off. Consequently, betting on a takeover of this scale seems to us to be more like gambling than investing.

We would have enormous concern about any betting on NHL games, but I can safely say there is no evidence brought to our attention in conversations with the prosecutors and the New Jersey police. There is no evidence the integrity of any NHL games was at stake.

With the combination of free streaming video and online betting pools, companies could be faced with serious bandwidth and productivity issues, not to mention many organizations' prohibition of Internet gambling in their company policy. Our customers will be able to continue with business-as-usual and not worry about employee distractions on game day.

When you are investing in J.P. Morgan, what you are really betting on is Jamie and Jamie's team, ... You are betting that Jamie's team of expense control czars are going to be able to fully integrate this business.

We will be watching the betting market together with the betting companies, and we will be getting the relevant information relating to betting patterns. If we discover from the market that there are bets being placed on certain matches that are not going in a proper way, then we can act accordingly.

Finance can only be understood as a gambling game, and gambling games can only be understood as a form of finance. Many people have no trouble accepting the first part: They believe Wall Street is a big casino. When New York introduced off-track betting in 1971, it chose the slogan 'If you're in the stock market, you might find this a better bet,'?