A Quote by Peter O'Toole

My father was a racetrack bookie.

Peter O'Toole

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Father Racetrack

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Peter O'Toole
Irish - Actor
August 2, 1932 - December 14, 2013

I think we're our biggest competition. I think the racetrack's the biggest competition. If we go and race the racetrack and try to go around the racetrack faster than our competition, then that's the goal. I look at it as a competition between us and the racetrack because it's all about lap time.

Jeff Burton

With my father and uncle so involved in racing, it was the only thing I ever knew, so I'm sure that had a huge influence on me. However, my father had more influence on me just by the way he lived, because the way he was at the racetrack was the way he was in everyday life.

Jacques Villeneuve

I always had one ear offstage, listening for the call from the bookie.

Walter Matthau

As every bookie knows instinctively, a number such as reliability - a qualitative rather than a quantitative measure - is needed to make the valuation of information practically useful.

Hans Christian von Baeyer

I lay 11-10 because I know the bookie needs that 5 percent that I give him. Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to make a living and go down to Florida with his family.

Walter Matthau

I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father.

Jules Feiffer

Richmond is just the ideal racetrack.

Denny Hamlin

I don't usually socialize a ton with other people when I'm at the racetrack.

Chase Elliott

I placed some silly wagers, sixty grand here, eighty grand there. I'd ring up a bookie and bet £10,000 on something like who would be the first batsman out at Lord's that day. I was that off my head.

Paul Merson

I have been going from one racetrack to another for years, since I was 14.

Casey Stoner

Making movies is just like betting on horses at the racetrack.

Maureen O'Hara

I come from a family of servants. My father's father was a servant, and my father's father's father was a slave.

Lee Daniels

The Son is called the Father; so the Son must be the Father. We must realize this fact. There are some who say that He is called the Father, but He is not really the Father. But how could He be called the Father and yet not be the Father?... In the place where no man can approach Him (I Tim. 6:16), God is the Father. When He comes forth to manifest Himself, He is the Son. So, a Son is given, yet His name is called 'The everlasting Father.' This very Son who has been given to us is the very Father.