Poker Quotes - page 3

You're not allowed to give yourself a nickname. This holds true in life as well as in poker. (Richard Roeper)
I've been playing Texas Hold 'em and other forms of poker since I was about 12. View quote
Richard Roeper
I am very driven. I work really hard, whether it's acting or my charity or even poker. When I focus on something I give it my all. View quote
Shannon Elizabeth
The great thing about athletics is that it's like poker sometimes: you know what's in your hand, and it may be a load of rubbish, but you've got to keep up the front. View quote
Sebastian Coe
What I know about poker, you can fit into a thimble with room left over, but I'm learning. View quote
Wilford Brimley
No, that's poker. To win, you've gotta get damned lucky. View quote
Wilford Brimley
What you're really doing is trying to win back what you've lost by going all in. It's shitty poker, and even worse as a battle strategy. View quote
Daniel Abraham
With words as valueless as poker chips, we play games whose object it is to keep us from seeing each other's cards. View quote
Frederick Buechner
[That] is the essence of poker: making tricky decisions based on incomplete information. View quote
John Vorhaus
It's a great battle, and it really is a battle, and there are people from all walks of life, you know, never judge anybody at the table: A man can be the greatest poker player and he might know all the numbers, but he might get beaten by a really savvy kid who works in a grocery store; and that's what's so great about this game. View quote
James Woods
My biggest problem in live games is that I love the game so much and I don't think I ever met a poker player I didn't fundamentally like - even if they're screaming and they're acting like real jerks. (James Woods)
I'm absolutely gonna win it, because I'm ruthless. I sit at the poker table and my job is to destroy people. View quote
James Woods
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. View quote
Tori Amos
I'm not a bottom poker and I never have been. View quote
Bill Allred
Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead. View quote
Jackie Robinson
The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent. View quote
David Mamet
Stuart Wheeler says women are no good at poker?! If he fancies playing a bit of Heads Up, he knows where to find me. View quote
Victoria Coren
Although I don't gamble in life - I've never played poker - I do gamble on stage. I gamble with myself: 'Can I do this?' View quote
Mikhail Baryshnikov
You don't ever want to be the wife who keeps her husband from playing poker - you don't ever want to be the shrew with the curlers and the rolling pin. So you swallow your disappointment and say okay. View quote
Gillian Schieber Flynn
Poker would have never gotten on TV when we only had three networks. View quote
Penn Jillette
Every poker player is smarter than me. (Penn Jillette)
Poker has the feeling of a sport, but you don't have to do push-ups. View quote
Penn Jillette
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. View quote
Antonio Banderas
Gritter thought it was about time the complacent louts at the top of the heap got to have a genuine red-hot poker up the ass. View quote
Justina Robson
Poker teaches self-reliance, self-control, self-respect, self-denial, and independence. But when cards are wild or are given fictitious authority, the noble game is robbed of its romance, grace and stimulation and degenerates into a gambling scheme. View quote
Henry Fountain Ashurst