Quotes from Molly Bloom

I know for sure that you have to re-define power as power that comes from within. Success needs to be more comprehensive and attached to something with meaning.

Everyone has their dreams and their rise and their own version of a fall from grace.

When you're willing to play poker for two days and lose millions of dollars, it's no longer recreation. It's taking over.

I hang out with my grandma, go to sleep at 8:30, and that's it.

Tobey Maguire and I had a tough relationship - it was a tough working relationship. We butted heads, and ultimately, I lost the Los Angeles game because of differences with him. But then I moved to New York and built a bigger game, five times bigger, making more money, and that was pretty exciting.

When I'm in a hectic crowd of people, I don't feel great. I'm looking over my shoulder. I feel exposed.

I built the most exclusive and decadent high-profile club for powerful men.

I think my dad really wanted me to survive the world. He knew as a psychologist how difficult the world is, and I think he wanted me to be tough.

My regular game in New York City was a $250,000 buy-in, no limit. So people were burning through that, a lot of times in the first 30 minutes.

This was 2008, you know. The economy was falling apart, spiraling. And I was hosting a game in New York, and there was $5 to $7 million on the table.

Tobey Maguire was the worst tipper, the best player, and the absolute worst loser.

Literally, if you weren't the best in the world in my family, it wasn't impressive.

Know when to fold. Pay attention to the signs. They're there.

I logged into my bank accounts, and they were all seized, all frozen. So that was a pretty clear indication that I was in big trouble.

In sports, especially skiing, you have to be comfortable with risk. You have to have a relationship with fear, and it can't dominate the decision-making process.

My mom had put her house up to bail me out of jail!

After I quit the U.S. Ski Team, there was a fair amount of, you know, grief that follows that, and I just wanted to take a year off. And I had a friend that lived in Los Angeles, said I could crash on his couch. And so I just kind of did the first really spontaneous thing I'd done in my young adult life.

Because of athletics, I got real comfortable with risk at a young age.

Even if there are people around to help you, you don't suffer with an audience; you don't triumph with an audience.

I believe that refusing to quit and refusing to fail will trump talent and brilliance in the end.

I created a lot of drama and mess in my life.

The motivations I had for being successful were somewhat dysfunctional.

Money is the great equalizer.

I made the choice to go into the world of underground poker.