21 Sports Betting Quotes from Movies (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Sep 17, 2025

A selection of sports betting quotes with sound bites from famous or less known movies, as rated by our visitors, accompanied by short MP3 or WAV audio samples.

1 Sounds to me like you guys are a couple of bookies.

Eddie Murphy as Billy Ray Valentine in Trading places (1983)

2 What price are you making? -On this one? Anything. For an old customer like Danny, let's make it interesting... say, 50 to 1.

Peter Ustinov as Captain Blackbeard in Blackbeard's Ghost (1968)

3 I bet... Come on, will ya? I wouldn't bet on Godolphin to start with the letter 'G.'

Peter Ustinov as Captain Blackbeard in Blackbeard's Ghost (1968)

4 I figured he couldn't lose. I put it all on his nose. He lost by a nose.

Sterling Hayden as Dix Handley in The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

5 Why do you bet on goats? You wanna bet on something, bet on horses. They run faster. -Yes sir.

Harold Lloyd as Harold Diddlebock in The Sin of Harold Diddlebock

6 How's his left? -Like a machine gun. -10 grand he wins in 3 rounds.

Humphrey Bogart as Alfred "Gloves" Donahue; William Demarest in All Through the Night (1942)

7 He wasn't just lucky. He knew because he had all the race results in the sports almanac. That's how he made his entire fortune.

Christopher Lloyd as Dr. Emmett Brown in Back to the Future Part II

8 Say, any luck with the 4:30? -Yes, it didn't hit me. That's the only luck I had with it.

Groucho Marx as Mr. Hammer in The Cocoanuts (1929)

9 But she's 30 to one! -But no bookie pays more than 15 to one.

Lionel Stander as Max in The Sin of Harold Diddlebock

10 You owe him about $6000, right? -Wrong, $7500. -It was $6000 last week. -The horses are still running, and I'm still losing.

Harry Belafonte as Johnny Ingram; Ed Begley as David Burke in Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)