Jeffrey Bernard Quotes

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

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

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

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

I think anybody who bets on horses and says they win is probably a liar.

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

It used to be said all horse players die broke - you can't beat the races. But today, with the Pick 6's and Superfectas, you can. Not that the odds aren't against you, but a good hit, and it's hard to blow that back.

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

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

My father was an insurance man and a small-time gambler. He was a good man, but he had an eye for the racehorses, and I saw how it used to bother my mother. I've never gambled a dime. Never, in all those years in Vegas.

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

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.

My father was a racetrack bookie.

It is not easy to get rich in Las Vegas, at Churchill Downs, or at the local Merrill Lynch office.

I learned to bet the Red Sox, the Celtics, Suffolk Downs. I thought it was a glorious life - pull up to the doughnut shop, spread out, and plan your day.

I'm not a betting woman, but I have $50 on Secretariat with an old director friend of mine.

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.

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 was a professional gambler. When I lived in London, there were a couple of years when I didn't really earn money doing anything else. I mean, I did other things: like, I made work, and I was working with Derek Jarman at the time, but the way I made money was putting money on horses.

Financing for 'Shotgun Stories' was initiated with money from close friends and family. This is where the money to go into production came from. After production, a company called 'Upload Films' came on board and provided post-production funds and services. In both instances, people were taking a gamble on us.

I live in Las Vegas and I like my money, but I don't gamble, but I said to my wife I want to put a $100,000 on Shogun.

When I was at university in Birmingham, I used to spend half my grant betting on horse racing. Seven terms out of nine, I made a profit.

I waited all those years for a title shot, and when I finally got it, I had to pay $20,000 for the opportunity. My purse was only $18,000. So to make money, I had to bet $10,000 on myself at 8-5. That was how it was in those days.

I won’t bet $100 against house odds between now and the grave.

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