Horse Race Gambling Quotes

I'm also frequently asked if I've used my abilities for gambling or the lottery. Get your minds out of the gutter. What I do is for the highest good of all concerned, so I'd never do that intentionally! And let's face it, even if I did try, I'm way too scattered to recognize what I'm being told. My aunt and I went to Belmont Park Race Track for her birthday one year, and I remember hearing "six ten" when I walked in--which is my birthday, June 10. How nice, I thought. Spirit's acknowledging my birthday too. My uncle asked me what colors I liked best so he could bet on a horse wearing that color, and all the colors I said were losing. It wasn't until after we left that I realized all the horses that won were a combination of the numbers six and ten! And then there was the time I went to a spa with my sister-in-law Corrinda. We went to Mohegan Sun one night, which was the first time I'd ever been to a casino, and decided to play roulette. Wouldn't you know, every number we played on the wheel was a loser? ~ Theresa Caputo

I tell ya, gambling never agreed with me. Last week I went to the track and they shot my horse with the opening gun. ~ Rodney Dangerfield

I was like a race horse, just trying to get into the world. ~ Joely Fisher

There is no secret so close as that between a rider and her horse. ~ Robert Smith

For the first 40 yards I am one of the fastest guys. After that, it's a horse race. ~ Ray Rice

No horse named Morbid ever won a race. ~ Ernest Hemingway,

Professionally I felt like a horse running in the wrong race. ~ Susan Strasberg

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

Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage. ~ Edouard Herriot

Part of the loot went for gambling, part for horses, and part for women. The rest I spent foolishly. ~ George Raft

The thing I notice first about a woman is her walk. A beautiful woman is like a race horse-slim, sleek and with a beautiful carriage. ~ Dean Martin

I wouldn't bet on a horse unless he came up to my house and told me to himself. ~ Eubie Blake

If, instead of playing the horses, an individual chooses to play the market, that is his own affair. Only he must understand that speculating in stocks is gambling, not investing. ~ Catherine Crook De Camp

The title race is between two horses and a little horse that needs milk and needs to learn how to jump. ~ Jose Mourinho

A race track is a place where windows clean people. ~ Danny Thomas

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. ~ Ambrose Bierce

My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden leg after a horse. ~ John Quincy Adams

Gamsters and race-horses never last long. ~ George Herbert

Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something. ~ Wilson Mizner

Along with my passion for horse breeding, I was a horse racing enthusiast ... In 1974 I was elected as a committee member and subsequently as a steward of the Turf Club. I had a burning desire to clean up the sport, which had always carried the stigma of gambling and manipulation. ~ Cyrus S. Poonawalla

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

You've got to remember that it's a two horse race. So when the Government is doing badly the Opposition is doing better and vice versa. ~ Malcolm Turnbull

How the horse dominated the mind of the early races especially of the Mediterranean! You were a lord if you had a horse. Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances ... The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action in man! ~ D.H. Lawrence

There is no gambling like politics. ~ Benjamin Disraeli

I used to go to Vegas and play the horses, and then I realised how ridiculous that was. There is no winning in gambling, but there is on the stock market. ~ Josh Brolin

I have a bad gambling problem. You're not in show business for 12 years and dress like this without a bad gambling problem. ~ Artie Lange

I'm a freakin' artist, man, not a (expletive) race horse. ~ John Lennon

Never mistake movement for action ... a rocking horse moves; a race horse charges towards a goal. ~ Johnnie Dent Jr.

The next best thing to gambling and winning is gambling and losing. ~ Nick Dandolos

It's foolish to bet on a horse without talking to him first. I know it seems silly to ask a horse who's going to win a race - but it's no sillier than asking anyone else. ~ Gracie Allen

I have stood in a bar in Lambourn and been offered, in the space of five minutes, a poached salmon, a leg of a horse, a free trip to Chantilly, marriage, a large unsolicited loan, ten tips for a ten-horse race, two second-hand cars, a fight, and the copyright to a dying jockey's life story. ~ Jeffrey Bernard

I feel like people around me are betters voting on the wrong horse in the race. I am that horse, always failing to make others win. ~ Austin Kelly

Building slow destroyers ! One might as well breed slow race horses. ~ Winston Churchill

No jockey ever won a race by carrying the horse across the finish line; no coach ever won a volleyball match by touching the ball during play. ~ John Kessel

Careful amidst the careless, amongst the sleeping wide-awake, the intelligent man leaves them all behind, like a race-horse does a mere hack. ~ Gautama Buddha

Putting a stop to internet gambling is a necessary reform that targets flagrant violations of state and federal laws. ~ John Shadegg

The only business in the world bigger than gambling is religion ... but gambling is not nearly so corrupt. ~ J.R. Miller

Horseshoes are lucky. Horses have four bits of lucky nailed to their feet. They should be the luckiest animals in the world. They should rule the country. They should win all their horse races, at least. 'In the fifth race today, every single horse was first equal ... one horse threw a shoe came in third ... the duck was ninth ... and five ran.' ~ Eddie Izzard

This was my first lesson about gambling: if you see somebody winning all the time, he isn't gambling, he's cheating. Later on in life, if I were continuously losing in any gambling situation, I would watch very closely. ~ Malcolm X

Obviously, Nevada doesn't prohibit all forms of gambling, but you have to submit yourself to a very rigorous regulatory process to run a gambling operation in Nevada. ~ Eric Schneiderman

I'm crazy enough to believe in taking chances in every way, in making choices and gambling with your life. That's the kind of gambling I believe in. ~ Lauren Bacall

Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry. ~ Charles Caleb Colton

When an office-holder facing a multi-count indictment says that he has decided to spend more time with his family, the proper response is a horse-laugh. When an accused politician explains that a charge of corruption is 'really' an attack on his or her race, religion, ethnic background or gender, the odds that something felonious happened jumps. ~ Jeff Greenfield

No wife can endure a gambling husband; unless he is a steady winner. ~ Thomas Dewar

The thing about online gambling is that it's never away, it's always accessible. And so, if you have an issue with gambling, it's designed to take advantage of that. ~ Ben Affleck

They had dined on horse meat, horse cheese, horse black pudding, horse d'oeuvres and a thin beer that Rincewind didn't want to speculate about. ~ Terry Pratchett

As a writer, being produced and getting credits is essential: it's like being a horse running a race - and if the movie is a success, then your horse won and people were right to bet on it. From my experience, and a lot of others have done it, it's the best way to start out in the industry and get recognition, which will then get you more work, and later on will allow you to do your own movies. ~ Matthew Jacobs

You're gambling with something vital. Most writers get smashed egos. ~ Norman Mailer

CENTAUR, n. One of a race of persons who lived before the division of labor had been carried to such a pitch of differentiation, and who followed the primitive economic maxim, "Every man his own horse." ~ Ambrose Bierce

The Chinese have always enjoyed gambling, and Macau is the only place in Greater China where gambling is legal. So I believe the government understands that there has to be a place for it. ~ Lui Che Woo

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. ~ W.C. Fields

The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race. ~ Gough Whitlam

Shockingly, a University of Pennsylvania study says the number of young people addicted to gambling - largely due to increased exposure to the Internet and Internet gambling - grew by an alarming 20 percent between 2004 and 2005 alone. ~ Spencer Bachus

I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle. ~ Mitch Hedberg

It was bad enough to have toppled from the Olympic heights to make my living competing with animals. But the competition wasn't even fair. No man could beat a race horse, not even for 100 yards. ~ Jesse Owens

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

I dreamed horse and lived horse and expected, if necessary, to marry a horse; for all practical purposes I was a horse. ~ James Tiptree Jr.

No use gambling if you can't lose your head once in a while. ~ Larry Merchant

Faith is a wondrous thing; it is not only capable of moving mountains, but also of making you believe that a herring is a race horse. ~ Arthur Koestler

Nevada has a very dynamic economy, with gambling being the number-one industry, followed closely by blood donorship. ~ Dave Barry

In short, they were gambling on their luck, and luck is not to be coerced. ~ Albert Camus

We never talk about gambling around my house. ~ Doyle Brunson

No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling. ~ Ralph Nader

A weekend in Vegas without gambling and drinking is just like being a born-again Christian. ~ Artie Lange

Find your horse. Discover the direction the horse is going. Ride the horse in that direction. ~ Peter McWilliams

I was at the pinnacle of my career one day and the next day I was put out to pasture. I felt like a race horse with a broken leg. ~ Jack Klugman

Suspense is torture ... but delightful
or there'd be no gambling in the world. ~ Ada Leverson

Our review concludes that DraftKings'/FanDuel's operations constitute illegal gambling under New York law. ~ Eric Schneiderman

The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother, and I call him Gamblor! ~ Homer

There are three way of courting ruin
women, gambling, and calling in technicians. ~ Georges Pompidou

I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him. ~ Henny Youngman

Guessing has never been widely acclaimed as a good gambling strategy. ~ Jan Garavaglia

As a close-up magician, I was using gambling cheating techniques. ~ Steve Truglia

Unfortunately, gambling and winning don't often go hand-in-hand. ~ Pete Rose

The greatest advantage in gambling lies in not playing at all. ~ Gerolamo Cardano

Horses are the windows to our souls ~ Horse & Rider Magazine

Yes, you will. And I will warn you now that not their blood but your suspicion might build evil in them. They will be what you expect of them ... I think when a man finds good or bad in his children he is seeing only what he planted in them after they cleared the womb."
"You can't make a race horse of a pig."
"No," said Samuel, "but you can make a very fast pig. ~ John Steinbeck

Well, games of chance and I are no strangers. This trading in papers . . . is it a bit like gambling?" "It's exactly like gambling, Prince Jalan. ~ Mark Lawrence

Once you adopt a value-investment strategy, any other investment behavior starts to seem like gambling. ~ Seth Klarman

Everyone has addictions and my problem is that I have 5,000 of them. If it's not drinking, it's gambling; if it's not gambling, it's eating anything from burgers, doughnuts to M&Ms. The only addiction I don't suffer from is chasing women. ~ John Daly

It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races. ~ Mark Twain

On the news two dozen events of fantastically different importance are announced in exactly the same tone of voice. The voice doesn't discriminate between a divorce, a horse race, a war in the Middle East. ~ Doris Lessing

Three Songs 1 Mountain. I whip my quick horse and don't dismount and look back in wonder. The sky is three feet away. 2 Mountain. The sea collapses and the river boils. Innumerable horses race insanely into the peak of battle. 3 Mountain. Peaks pierce the green sky, unblunted. The sky would fall but for the columns of mountains. ~ Mao Zedong

What I have realized through practicing is that practice isn't about beng the best horse or the good horse or the poor horse or the worst horse. ~ Pema Chodron

The 2006 federal Internet gaming statute is not ambiguous. It does not prohibit gambling on fantasy sports. ~ Eric Schneiderman

The only gambling tip which amounts to anything is to keep out of the game. ~ E.W. Howe

The horse must perform from joy, not subservience. Praising a horse frequently with voice, a gentle pat, or relaxing the reins is very important to keep the horse interested and willing. ~ Klaus Balkenhol

Without knowledge and a workable plan, you are gambling, with little or no chance of success. ~ Robert G. Allen

After winning the Derby aged just 18-Why all the fuss? After all, the Derby is just another race. ~ Lester Piggott

Gambling operates under the premise that greed can be satisfied by luck. ~ Rita Mae Brown

Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized. ~ Dean Inge

Yes, I think poker really isn't gambling. ~ Al Alvarez

Gambling is a most foolish and imprudent pursuit. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

Could I be jealous of the way he was touching my horse? Yep ... I was. ~ Carly Kade

If there was a horse and the horse looked like you, I would find that horse attractive. ~ S.J. Kincaid

In our most Puritan of society, gambling-like other pleasures-is either taxed, restricted to certain hours, or forbidden altogether. Yet the impulse to gamble remains an eternal aspect of the irrationality of man. It finds outlets in business, war, politics, in the formal overtures of the gambling casinos, and in the less ceremonious exchanges among individuals of differing opinions. ~ Richard Arnold Epstein

I am best described as just a guy with a very large bump of curiosity and a gambling instinct. ~ Clarence Birdseye

There's no such thing as a sure thing. That's why they call it gambling. ~ Neil Simon

Gambling is a principle inherent in human nature. ~ Edmund Burke

Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards. ~ Nikolai Gogol