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"It's pretty clear to me the people in charge...were all shockingly incompetent considering the high stakes they were facing."
"In all my years as a journalist, I had never seen a story where the gap between insider and outsider knowledge was so big or where the stakes were so high."
"The stakes are very high at the Battle of Gettysburg."
"This is the World Cup. This is the knockout stage now. There's no second chances."
"If I'm going to roll the dice, it's going to be in the Super Bowl."
"What does it mean to bet it all? To take a risk where failure comes at an incredible cost."
"My heart's kind of racing the whole time when I'm playing higher stakes and it's a blast for me to play these sessions."
"When you get in there and it's either kill or be killed almost vice president yes to that it's a very very good assessment because it's uh it's scary as hell"
"At the end of the day in high stakes you have to be like someone people want to play with like that's what matters more."
"One little mistake can be very costly at this level."
"Incredibly Ragnarok continues the tale of God of War with heightened stakes."
"We need an Elon Musk in Congress; someone who's willing to stake $40 billion to do something."
"The haves and have-nots of marketing are becoming very clear. The stakes are very high."
"If we can make the final table of six, we'll get our first seven-figure score."
"That's the whole goal: it's like putting a stick of dynamite in every room at your house and then detonating them all at the same time."
"I'm not paying 80 grand for it to be junk so I want it to be amazing."
"My job is to find the wreck of another ship, the Prometheus, and recover the data cores for some new secret weapons research project."
"This is a very big case not only do you have the fates and the fortunes of the individual defendants at play here."
"This card looks super scary. That means Rachel can now be casting stuff for free every single turn. This is really bad news."
"Every game is like the Champions League final."
"Dirt like Epstein had on people is more valuable than any kind of money."
"This is the greatest sporting event of the year by the way the main event bracelet I believe that thing alone is worth half a million dollars with the amount of diamonds that are in there."
"The stakes are so high so it just it completely transports you to this gritty landscape of a world where the axis powers won."
"This is big boy stuff now. You're in the knockout stage of the World Cup. You can't be playing Wales or Iran; you're going to start playing France, Spain, Brazil if you want to win this tournament."
"This is the stakes are [ __ ] super high, super high for something like this. It's not just a software company failing, no, it's people's lives, many people's lives."
"If the Niners don't do it now, when they're the Super Bowl favorite, when they've been favored all year, when they are healthy..."
"Literally it's Mr. Beast. Whoever wins in this Uno match gets $100,000."
"I want to see some blood, I want to see the quarter-million-dollar session even out the match and really build up the hype."
"I'm always playing for a million dollars, man."
"It is a true champion versus champion matchup and there's so much on the line and the best part is they hate each other."
"These kids almost have no other choice than to partake in this winner-take-all gauntlet with everything to gain and everything to lose."
"Studios are betting hundreds of millions of dollars, hoping every film is a hit."
"Panicking is the death sentence of every Isaac run."
"Brazil's Bolsonaro says he will be killed, arrested, or reelected."
"If I let you go, will you let me go? It must be taken care of by its High Priest."
"An insufferable prick who just won us a hundred-million dollars!"
"The global interest in this fight is unlike anything that we've seen."
"This in here they say that based on its play against all professionals it was win at a rate of $1,000 an hour consistently right and that's against the best players in the world."
"We need more of that energy because the stakes are just really too high."
"This was an extremely high stakes offer for jks."
"Football is a big boy job with big boy money, and if you can't handle that then you shouldn't be a Premier League manager, facts."
"If you wait to the sixth round and you draft Kyler Murray, you have an outside shot at the number one overall fantasy quarterback for 2020."
"If you really believe something is true and the stakes are so high, you have a chance to publish."
"The greatest drivers win the races and outrun the law with style and are classified as level 20 most wanted."
"The stakes may be higher than you think regarding the aliens."
"I'm a home run trader, I go for the big ones."
"The stakes couldn't be higher if they were fighting for the title in this division."
"These men, the stakes couldn't be higher if they were fighting for the title in this division. It's 1:1 now."
"If Joseph Parker doesn't bring his A-game, it's going to be a very difficult night."
"There's no question, it should be Roman's biggest match as champion."
"This is a single lap shootout now, forget the results, win one, it's essentially zero-zero."
"A 1v3 in any format is going to be impressive for a Victory Royale, but to do it when the Victory Royale means so much."
"Humans tend to like being right to the point where when something huge is on the line, it easily devolves into moral absolutism, like say the end of the world."
"It was just everything I wanted in high stakes fantasy... it hit me right in the feels but it was also so so good."
"Elon Musk has failed more spectacularly and at higher cost than anyone who will watch this video."
"It is going to be chaos... either way, the bar is set super super high."
"You have to gamble to be at its highest level."
"That's potentially a move for a million dollars."
"We have to get out of here, live with everything you've got or it's gonna kill us."
"10 million dollars for first and a lifetime of being called world champion."
"This is high stakes. This is very fine. This is very good stuff."
"This is the build that I use on the $50,000 tournament."
"The big players step up to the plate when the big games arrive."
"I just think it's so exciting to see that there's so many teams that are actually competing on this level."
"Half a million dollars is still half a million dollars for one game of basketball."
"There are a few things better than the final moments of a battle royale game. It's very, very intense."
"This is the final game, we're gonna see who's gonna go huge."
"Nothing could stop me, I'm all the way up." - Rapper French Montana on his $165,000 wager on Khabib versus Conor at UFC 229.
"One better was so confident he put one million dollars on it. A million dollars on Nunes to defeat Spencer."
"Every game was so electric when Jordan was at the Garden... every single play he's playing like this is going to decide who wins the championship."
"I'm almost getting the image of someone trying to land on like a landmine before it explodes."
"There's not enough money in the world that you could pay me to be Jason Whitlock."
"The best fighting the best with so much on the line."
"Esports: they're playing video games for money. Big money. Well over six figures."
"No one will notice the game’s shoddy design anyway. Because if you die in the game, you die in real life!"
"Now that Marianne Williamson has informed James Cameron as to just how important Avatar is to world peace he better not screw up the sequels because lives are literally hanging in the balance."
"Creativity is a high risk high return strategy. Your new idea is probably stupid and wrong and maybe it's fatal but now and then it's unbelievably successful."
"I'm just saying like it's probably not a good idea to start acting more confident and talking trash to people when you've got a lot on the line."
"Quality stakes can be a pricey proposition, so it's best to do your homework before dropping some major coin."
"If he loses this, it would be the biggest collapse in Barstool Sports history... that's crazy, man."
"The stakes are high. He is on a contending team that wants to win an NBA championship this season."
"Most other countries go for a high-stakes knowledge-based test at the end of secondary school."
"These mistakes have lost teams games, may have cost a team a World Series, caused actual riots, gotten games canceled, and have even led to people being arrested."
"If you're looking for something different and high stakes that feels like a MOBA and an MMO, Albion Online might be a great choice for you."
"Let's do this, Bennett! Million-dollar damage!"
"Those who don't follow the rules of the game can end up paying for it with their lives."
"There's nothing left to do but for the jury to decide Kyle Rittenhouse's fate. How fun and exciting!"
"That is a person that is paying a huge price for a political show."
"You better hope so, he spent 44 billion dollars on this thing."
"Are we about to see a true time heist to which Endgame was merely the average?"
"Passion is what fuels warfare; people's lives are at stake."
"It's just perfect pro wrestling with incredibly talented workers and high stakes."
"We practically bet our houses on it... we all feel so lucky to have been along for the ride."
"You don't have to like your adversary, but when the stakes are as high as they are, you have to at least make an effort to try to understand them."
"Desperate to keep their season alive and force a game seven."
"It doesn't get any higher in terms of stakes than the tournament of power."
"Deadlines in law can be super important; you can actually have it so that on like Thursday you might have a case that is a virtual certainty to win and will bring your client millions of dollars and on Friday your client has no case."
"This is how you go after that million dollar bonus."
"The pressure is very different, there's so much at stake."
"Throw a massive contract out to Chris Bryant."
"The literal fate of the world relies on me not looking both ways before I cross the street right now."
"Decisions really mattered... when you die your character is deleted."
"This is a massive throw all the cards on the table, go all in, high risk, high reward, shoot the moon."
"It is gonna go all in. He's warping in units, he's gonna put it all on the line. He's gonna go for a tree Gate shield better."
"This is like the one last opportunity they have... if this game sucks, I don't even know where that leaves me."
"This is the real competition. This is testing ourselves against the best."
"Everyone is absolutely serious at this end game, and no one's going down. Finally, one person does."
"Charles Oliveira versus Justin Gaethje, the way that he attacks guys like you and Justin Gaethje, the most dangerous man in the world."
"The gameplay is engaging and the stakes are high - it's the best version of the Ironman challenge yet."
"This is one of the most stacked games you are ever going to see in an FNCS finals."
"Know that there is only one true timeline, though there are those who would have it otherwise. You must protect it. Without the truth of time as it is meant to unfold, more will be lost than you can possibly imagine."
"It's kill or be killed in this instance, Sung Jin-Woo."
"The stakes are much higher than we are told."
"We're playing Arsenal tonight, obviously top of the table clash."
"Chelsea are desperate to sell everyone and they'll look, you know this sort of almost Saudi kind of gift is being brought along where they're getting crazy money for players who almost surplus to requirements."
"It's the richest game in football; it is a chance to play in the Premier League."
"The stakes have never been higher but I think the choice has never been."
"You drop off for 10 seconds... you're out of a title race at this level."
"10 Mana 10/10 the Jailer Battle Cry destroy your deck for the rest of the game your minions are immune."
"Change their mind... try and try and try again... everything is betting on this."
"Even people that do play The Game of Thrones may also die horrible death."
"His fee for signing on was more than Tiger's ever won on the golf course: 125 million."
"The battle is intense, the stakes are sky high, and it's the culmination of a beloved saga."
"This would be the equivalent of the Chicago Bulls firing Michael Jordan after his third Championship."
"This showcase is probably the biggest case of make-it or break-it that I've ever seen."
"New York City is gritty, tough, beautiful, artsy, eclectic... New York City is [__] awesome!"
"I am prepared to put my presidency on the line on this matter."
"There's never a good time to sell Amazon or Bitcoin."
"Winner take all games, averaging 33 points in those games."
"The richest prize in all of sports entertainment and it is on the line."
"There's just something inspirational about a support carrying that hard with everything at stake."
"Playing dress-up during life and death situations is tight."
"Rule number one: Never get too comfortable. We're out here to compete for $50,000."
"Both sides save face; history's most dangerous game of poker is over."
"When you play PLO, you better bring the big guns."
"The potential for corruption is off the charts."
"We pick at number one, we pick at number five."
"Playing in a poker tournament can involve ludicrous sums of money, with the winners being written into the history books."
"There's no such thing as a negative emotion."
"Marvel Champions makes you feel like a superhero. You are doing superhero stuff constantly and the stakes are constantly high."
"Nothing costs more than what you don't pay for. You want to win like Nick the Greek, the price is you will become Nick the Greek."
"It's making something high-risk high-reward."
"The upside for winning your league with a player like this is so high."
"One small slip-up could cost you the entire run."
"These high stakes made their eventual bout far more unpredictable."
"It's about much, much more if it was just that the stakes would not be this High the fight uh would not be as bitter as it already is and as bitter as it will become."
"Yeah, Dana White did, 100 grand. It took him one second."
"This is a grand finals game right here, for any of you guys wondering what's at stakes here or like who's in the lobby, what's on the line, this is the best of the best right now."
"Sweet Home is a true horror experience because the stakes are high."
"Literally in about 10 emails, I made a deal on my first million-dollar car."
"That amount, approximately $550 million and increasing every single day, is fueling this speculation that Trump may be forced to unload some of his prized properties to cover the tab."
"Monkey D Luffy is about to become the world's most wanted man with a truly staggering Bounty perhaps even the highest of Bounties in all of the fictional pirate histories."
"SKT is in a position where they can force a fifth game, but if they falter once, they would be out of Worlds right here."
"They will be legends if they do it, they really, really will."
"Multiple Earths are all about to collide with each other. It's going to be the most dangerous mission you've ever faced. Let's get moving."
"Can he shine on the big stage and beat the big dogs? That's the question."
"If I'm going to a challenge where I have an opportunity to win $100,000 I'm gonna be respectful every step of the way."
"Lubu is gonna have to pull some kind of miracle here."
"It genuinely feels like a freaking Champions League final."
"Whenever you are someone who has a lot of money, the stakes are always so much higher for you."
"You make nervous with a million dollars on the one oh I swear you get sned out of the air that's like crazy"
"But in reality, there's something much, much bigger at stake here."
"Imagine if the president... offered the launch codes... and lost his bet..."
"We're finally playing a game with extremely high stakes against a scientist who up to this point hasn't been beaten by anyone."
"Life-changing money abounds, all the honor, all the privilege."
"Shorting is the highest risk strategy in trading."
"Are they going to play out of their minds? Can they compete in diamonds?"
"If you have anything else distracting our vision we we are a chance that we might miss and I think for an exam which has such high stakes that is very very important."
"This is not a game of chess. It's either we win or Putin wins."
"Big time players make big time plays in big time games."
"This is our biggest sale yet, there's so much on the line."
"Big-time stage calls for big-time players." - "This war machine, they get the last laugh."
"Second place gets nearly 600,000 pounds, the winner gets more than 820,000 pounds plus the super high roller trophy."
"Welcome to the UK capital poised for the concluding chapter of the first ever £50,000 super high roller on the pokéstar scam European Poker Tour."
"The World Championships are slipping through their fingers."
"This is (beep) Ink Master. We're trying to give out a hundred grand. He didn't swing for the fences here."
"Do you know what a nuclear war would do? Do you have any idea how high the stakes are with a nuclear war compared to literally any other kind of Engagement?"
"Conor Diaz fight is just a massive fight sort of and juicy waiting for him taken."
"We only get one shot at this... if you don't literally."
"You fucked up one of them like you fucked up millions of dollars for one of them."
"Higher stakes do improve game experience a lot of times."
"The stake has never been higher as the fate of the world itself and the future of each faction are to be decided on the battlefield."
"We're winning over 32,000 right now. It's a lot of money to me and we still have plenty of Poker left to play."
"It would be a beautiful poetic irony if Donald Trump was to fall under foot to be sued for hundreds of millions of dollars."
"He's the first guy in the entire series that has a bounty of, well, it was 1 billion, but even to reach that number was insane at the time."
"Modern Doctor finales are grand epic tales with high stakes and dramatic revelations."
"You're going to throw the pitch that wins the game or lose the game that night, and, you know, you just live with that."
"Every single victory is so stressful... I can't die a single time."
"Steady as you can, like, but the final kills, they're big kills."
"Are you kidding me? 500,000 pokey dollars, dude! Isn't that beat me you tonight? Holy cow!"
"He's gone for Pele, guys, oh my god, 6.5 million coins."
"The stakes are high and there's little room for mess-ups."
"31 rounds over the course of 10 months with a record purse of 10 million dollars on the line, strap in because it's going to get nuts."
"It would be unprecedented if he pulls it off."
"Oh my god, the pressure is high, the stakes are high."
"The top is gonna be a hundred thousand dollars."
"He sounds like the stakes are high. They have never been higher. Now I believe it."
"Matt Riddle on Monday Night Raw against Brock Lesnar is the money match."
"If the defense against the elixir golem fails, it's even more punishing."
"Winner takes all, like the Anchorman fight scene."