Wagered Quotes

To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God! - Andre Breton

This business swirls around purse money. The higher the purse, the higher quality of animal we get, the larger number of horses in each race, the more money is wagered and there's more money an individual can win. It's all about the purses. - Ron Crockett

There's a $100 billion bet every year and only one percent of that is bet in Las Vegas. Where do you think the rest is being wagered? - Freddy Harris

Especially in the Chicago area, there will be a 10 percent to 15 percent decrease in bets wagered. - Jack Kelly

[Like the mighty Wall Street Journal's WSJ.com, with its 461,000 paying subscribers, the Racing Form already gathers voluminous data for its print edition. And no one resembles stock traders more than serious horse players. Potentially, it's a big business. Of the $14 billion wagered on the ponies every year (movie ticket sales last year, by contrast, totaled less than $8 billion), 10 percent of the bettors staked 90 percent of the money. These are hard-core gamblers, info junkies looking for an edge, and they're Racing Form readers.] The average person bets $125 a day at the races... A Form user bets $500. - Steven Crist