Famous Quotes & Sayings

You can't bet sports every day. With baseball, people start off excited in April, but by June, July, only professional players are still betting. With football they get a break -- they're burnt out by Monday or Tuesday, then by Thursday they're ready to bet again.

Olli Jokinen

We've got 5-6 million people in our country and I'll bet every single one will watch the game on TV.

This season of American Idol is already the most watched and should be interesting to say the least. In keeping with previous years, there's sure to be controversy, heartbreak and triumph, all of the ingredients that give Idol the massive following it continues to enjoy. Everyone bets, but viewer voting can make the outcome so difficult to predict and is what makes betting so much fun.

The Opera folks are betting their browser has reached a threshold of popularity where they can unshackle it from the fees. This clearly is a volume play that could pay off if enough people use the browser. Opera would be able to drive revenue through affiliate relationships, for example.

The recovery is extremely real. ... It's so real you can bet money on it.

George H. W. Bush

Two-bit terrorists aren't going to prevent me from doing what we need to do and that is to promote our friendship in the hemisphere, ... Our neighborhood is important to us. Peru is an important country. You bet I'm going.

Laura Bush

Two-bit terrorists aren't going to prevent me from doing what we need to do, and that is to promote our friendship in the hemisphere, ... You bet I'm going.

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.

Zig Ziglar

When a company or individual compromises one time, whether it's on price or principle, the next compromise is right around the corner and you can bet your last nickel on it.

This reluctance to press Nigeria to hand over Taylor fosters a double standard that betrays the people of Sierra Leone,

There has been less volatility overall on these numbers, and making the big bet has not really paid off.

We said no. We're going to place our bets on the broadcast media names.

Alfre Woodard

I can't say too much about it because I don't know a lot. We're not told what's in store for our characters until we turn up to shoot the episode. But it's fair to say that Betty and her son bring a brand new mystery to the street and they will be around all season.

People are snapping up medium-term debt on bets the BOJ will take its time raising rates after a shift in policy.

Over the next month, all bets are off. I don't know who's going to win. All I know is whatever comes out of Senate has to be perfect.

Overall, they were a bit concerned about inflation and see strong growth, which supports the notion that they will continue to tighten policy. But after Katrina, all bets on how much they might tighten are off the table,

Out of respect to Betty we couldn't think of a more appropriate name.

Jim Boeheim

We never made it through nine holes, ... If you were smart, you would have bet the under every time.

Bill Cosby

Betrayal, abandonment, deceit and manipulation.

I think they've got a lot of A-pluses going for them at this point. In six or seven or eight years, it will be a major player. I think its reputation is going to grow very, very quickly. You can bet on that.

I said before, hopefully, Belmont day, I would move for every racetrack to have a lemonade stand on Belmont day throughout the entire United States and give a dollar to the lemonade stand or their local juvenile cancer fund. And, like I said earlier, everybody who was fortunate enough to bet on this horse, makes a little money, just take $1, donate it to Alex's Lemonade Stand or local juvenile cancer fund, and maybe we can make the world a better place.

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!

People have got high hopes for this number, to justify some of the bigger expectations for Fed rate increases we've seen develop this week. No one's going to want to put on big bets before the report though.

Sue went to a different level. She got everybody organized, kept everybody focused, moreso than a regular-season kind of deal. Betty stepped up verbally, so yeah, it's a different gear.

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.

Calvin Ayre

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

Some of the bets we made did not pay off.

Ato Boldon

Someone 'big' will get thrown out of their Trials or at the Olympics. I would bet my house on it.

My son watches the BETs and videos and sees the fads. I want him to see that there are other options and teach him to use his head about deciding what he wants to do with his life.

My wife and I were talking this morning, and I said 'What if all Americans said they were not going to drive, everyone parked their cars, what would the oil companies do?' I bet they would lose millions.

My partner turned around and said, 'That car is driving at a terrible speed. I bet you anything when we get up there it's wrapped around a lamp post'. When we came up and saw the body that was it. It just really tore us apart.

Lockheed is hedging its bets just in case it lost out on the Joint Strike Fighter contract. Northrop has a lot of the avionics that go onto military aircraft.

Look how cute that is, ... I bet you I was in a blue blanket at this point.