Sports Gambling Quotes

I don't play golf competitively. I tell everybody that I cheat so they won't gamble with me. That's why you can't watch football. Everybody's gambling. They don't want to watch the game; they watch the spread.

I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head - big darkness, soon come - but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them.

I'm excited to join my brother-in-law Ken Thomson every Tuesday night on SiriusXM to recap all of the awesome NFL action, and to find out what in the Wylde world of sports is going on.

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.

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

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

In fact, there's a lot to legitimately hate about pro sports and the way they are conducted.

Football and gambling - two great American addictions working together. What could possibly go wrong?

I don't really trust the NFL.

Daily Fantasy Sports has nothing to do with sports. The “game,” such as it is, uses sporting events the way the lottery uses ping-pong balls. Being into DFS because you’re a sports fan is like being into poker because you’re just generally a big fan of clovers, diamonds and spades. Indeed, the best players don’t know anything about sports at all, a fact they are cheerfully honest, even boastful, about.

I mean, sports are big, big, big business.

Day baseball is now dead for all practical purposes. Sooner or later, the game will be played in its entirety at night, and as I've said before, then baseball will be squarely in the amusement, the entertainment business along with wrestling, midget auto racing and the trotting tracks.

I would like to apologise to anyone who has put a bet on me becoming the next Scotland manager.

I'm not coming in as an advocate of sports gambling. I'm trying to be more of a realist to say it's going on in a massive way... and I think the right course would be therefore to legalize it and regulate it.

I think the XFL has a good chance. With the way sports gambling is coming to be and the people they have running that league, I think Vince does not want to fail again.

I can't remember, I wish I could remember the first time I bet on baseball.

I make predictions about what I'm going to do before a fight, that makes me nervous because I've gotten so good at it until people really look for me to do it.If I say the man's going to fall in round five, like your man Henry Cooper here, he was stopped in round five but it was on a cut - it wasn't because he was out. But usually 'm on the spot with my predictions and some people really gamble and bet money on the rounds I say.