Graham Sharpe Quotes (19 Quotes)

I hope we are trivializing it. The Booker takes itself far too seriously. We are popularizing it and making it far more accessible. It's great that people have a flutter.

At the weekend Paris were way out in front as red hot favorites, but over the past 48 hours London's odds have been dramatically cut several times.

A few years ago this match would have been inconsequential but we now have clients in these markets and feel obliged to offer odds.

This time last year, you could get 6-1 for Tiger to win the Open, but he is coming into this year's event bang in form and our customers are backing him as though defeat were out of the question, ... If he wins, the industry will take a multimillion-pound hit.

I don't think Tony Blair wants to go until he has beaten Margaret Thatcher's 11-12 years in office and that will take us to 2008.

Up until the injury we were consistently taking substantial bets for England but now the support has dried up - although we do face seven figure liabilities for an England victory.

The average bets in this market are around 20-50. We've had a sequence of three-figure bets from the internet, shops and telephone all with Hull connections.

We are left with a low-profile bunch of authors. This is an average rather than an extraordinary year.

In one way, it's a good thing. In another, it's bad because you could easily get all 20 Premier League clubs in the next round and they could go on to dominate the competition.

That result will cost us a six figure payout but we have done well out of the elimination of Italy, so there is a silver lining to the cloud.

I thought I'd heard most things that people want to bet on after 30 years in the business. But one asking literally to place a dead cert was unique. I'm glad Arthur has lost.

This is already the biggest betting Test series ever, with up to a record 50 million pounds riding on the outcome of the five-match series, and with the unprecedented interest in the outcome of the final match we are expecting cricket punters to bet over a million pounds in a single day for the first time as the game gets underway.

The gamble started in South Wales and moved down towards London from there.

If 'Big Phil' gets the job we will be quite happy from a bookmaking point of view as we will make a five figure profit.

Whoever takes over will be inheriting a much loved position and an opportunity to become a broadcasting institution.

We are looking at potentially our biggest patriotic payout since England's rugby union players won the 2003 World Cup.

Dr Fox's decision to run does not seem to have excited political punters.

With the Aussies needing only to avoid defeat in the final two matches to retain the Ashes, punters reckon that they will play safe -- and that, combined with the likelihood of the weather taking a hand early on in the game, swings the balance of probabilities towards the draw as the most likely outcome.

The Tory decision wouldn't seem to have done Ken Clarke's hopes a great deal of good and we think David Davis now has the clear edge over his opponents with Liam Fox - whose odds we have halved from 121 - potentially his main challenger