Quotes About Poker

If you're in the minority, every advantage is against you, right? So the only advantage you have against the majority is they're too lazy to know their own rules, right? So it's like a game of poker.

I have a good poker face because I am half-dead inside.

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

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

I can't lie... My face always gives me away. I'm also pathetically bad at 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've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.

There is no such thing as women's intuition. You all just have crap poker faces.

I'm neither here nor there about this Lady Gaga, but she's clearly very passionate about her poker face.

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

In the world of poker, it's not heroic to try to function on a couple hours of sleep.

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

I have always played cards during training camps. I used to play Italian card games, though. I rarely played poker.

It wasn't a popular thing to be a professional poker player in the '80s.

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.

Writing about poker is one of my passions.

The investing world is a little bit more multidimensional than poker.

I've been at the table with some really great poker players. I'm sure Vince McMahon is a hell of a poker player.

I never wanted poker to be a job. That's partly because I love it, and it's fun, and I didn't want it to stop being fun, and partly because, I suppose, something in me doesn't feel right about calling poker a job. It's not grown-up enough. But it's a hobby that takes up an enormous amount of my time.

I just don't enjoy poker that much.

In both snooker and poker, you have to play your best under pressure; I was always able to do that. I don't think it is something you can teach. Your mental strength, your confidence, your self-belief has got to be very strong. That is the common denominator.

My poker face makes it difficult for people to figure out what's on my mind.

The secret behind playing small ball poker isn't so much in the hands you choose to play. It's more about the amount you choose to bet with the hands you end up playing.