Quotes About Competition

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

Poker is a game where you don't have to have the best hand to win. Poker is really reading other people and reading human emotion, which certainly comes into play in business.

Poker is just a hobby I'm passionate about. It's not supposed to bring glory.

High-stakes gamblers love heart-racing Omaha-type action; normal poker players don't!

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.

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

If you are in a poker game for money and are taking it easy on one of your buddies, you are cheating yourself, your friend, and every other player in the game.

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.

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.

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

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.

Poker would have never gotten on TV when we only had three networks.

I'm just a poker player who does a bit of TV.

I like to play a lot of poker in my off time.

I can play poker when I have to and I think it has made me a better fighter.

What you see on a lot of televised poker is highlight-reel poker. That's why I used to like 'Poker After Dark' so much. It used to catch us playing almost every single hand... It is more of a grind than people think.

Here's a news flash: I hate to lose! Just watch any televised poker broadcast and you can see that's the case.

One of my favorite poker shows on television is 'Poker After Dark.'

Poker is a great game and feeds my need for competition a lot.

I play poker face to face.

In Poland we still believe - and this certainly applies to my government - that greater competitiveness, and greater growth and savings are possible in an economy which is as sparely regulated as possible, where freedom, competition and private ownership are key values.

It's good to get a good lap and get pole.

I was a big 'Pole Position' fan. I've been playing games for a long time.

Every time I get in the car, I'm just focused on being the fastest, trying to win the race, trying to get pole.