Poker Quotes

But I want people to understand that poker's not all glamorous, it's not all being on TV and making tons of money. It's a hard life. It's a lot of travel. It's a lot of weird hours.

The only things I'm competitive in are backgammon and poker.

Yes, I think poker really isn't gambling.

The beautiful thing about poker is that everybody thinks they can play.

The best part about poker is there's no down side.

I'm the first person in my family to play poker.

People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker.

You get steely nerves playing poker.

Ninety percent of the hands aren't shown in a poker game.

You're not allowed to give yourself a nickname. This holds true in life as well as in poker.

When I play poker, I don't like losing the pot.

I'm not like a poker player. I'm not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I'm intending to go. My cards are always on the table.

Not having the online game has made it more difficult. There are a lot of young and upcoming players in poker. But you don't get to see them because TV has sort of been taken away.

Initial feedback we got from people was that Poker could and should be a product in its own right. For us, that was definitely a case of us not seeing the forest for the trees since we are Poker nuts.

As for poker, I've stayed away from that, even though when I was in Vegas for Ocean's Eleven, I would get accosted by these guys begging me to play. They just want to take my money. They see me, think "actor" and see some easy money.

What I know about poker, you can fit into a thimble with room left over, but I'm learning.

The pros really like all the new people playing poker because they love the dead money; but when the money wins they don't like that very much at all.

ESPN has this problem with sports, it's impossible to fill 24 hours with sports programming so they have to resort to things like poker and arm wrestling tournaments.

I met my boyfriend, a pro poker player, at a tournament. He tried to dissuade me because it's a seedy gritty world. Listen, I've played till 4 in the morning. I've played with a half million dollars on the table.

No, that's poker. To win, you've gotta get damned lucky.

Poker has such an element of competitivness that other games don't have.

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.

I've been playing Texas Hold 'em and other forms of poker since I was about 12.

My kitty cats could rely on my poker winnings.

For the most part, I get to do what I want to do. If I want to play poker, I can. If I don't want to play poker, I don't have to.

I think one of the interesting things about poker is that once you let your ego in, you're done for.

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.

I'm absolutely gonna win it, because I'm ruthless. I sit at the poker table and my job is to destroy people.

I completely take on the risk, the poker game, which being an artist means, and I'm going to try to make a film which honestly reflects what I have in my head.

I can never have a poker face. Anybody looking at me can tell exactly what I'm thinking.