Poker Quotes

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.

If you're a poker player and you show up at a casino at 8 a.m., you're going to be by yourself or with some people that are rocks and just don't give you any action.

As I stood there absorbing Hammett's novel, the slot machines at the back of the shop were clanking and whirring, and in the billiard room upstairs the perpetual poker game was being played.

Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.

I could think of worse ways of going than at the poker table.

I used to sports gamble a lot and I was getting killed on that but then I found poker and really enjoyed it. But it was a hobby more than anything else. I played it every day but only on pretty small stakes.

Never in a million years did I think the sport of poker would blow up the way it did.

Living in the past is a Jethro Tull album, not a smart poker strategy.

Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

The competition has improved tremendously. In 2003, I could teach a guy how to play poker in an hour and he could win some money. Today, it would take days. The game has gotten so much tougher. So I will spend my time with my family and play when I can.

Air power is like poker. A second-best hand is like none at all - it will cost you dough and win you nothing.

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.

Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.

If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

Poker is meant to be enjoyed.

Being able to pit your wits against literally hundreds of other people is really exciting and ultimately the biggest single challenge for a poker player.

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.