James Woods Quotes

Trust me when I tell you that Andy Roddick has the game to win a major poker tournament. I've played Hold 'em with him several times and he consistently demonstrates the kind of playing style and competitive drive that gives him a legitimate chance to win.

Poker is all about comfort with uncertainty, after all.

Poker isn't the roulette wheel of pure chance, nor is it the chess of mathematical elegance and perfect information. Apart from the underlying mathematics, poker depends on the nuanced reading of human intention, interactions, and deceptions.

Poker is a charismatic game. People who are larger than life play poker and make their living from playing games and hustling.

I learned playing poker that you never count your winnings because that's when you start to lose.

Actors should be better poker players. But I think there's actual skill and crazy guts that you need to play poker - this ability to put all this money on the line inside of that game of cards. There's this whole different set of skills that doesn't apply to acting whatsoever.

Ninety percent of the hands aren't shown in a poker game.

Yes, I think poker really isn't gambling.

A lot of boys in my poker circle are mathematicians who play on probability. I don't have that kind of brain, so I rely on instinct. But I recently found out that poker and cards in general go way back in my family gene pool.

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.

I still enjoy a wee game of poker now and then, but I'm not very good, and being Scottish, I don't like to lose that much money!

I thought poker might be a perfect environment to start to learn probabilistic decision-making, and to live what it means to have skill versus chance and to see how that played out. I would dive in head first into the poker world.

My favorite poker game is No Limit Texas Hold 'Em.

If you're going to just play with patience, you're going to be at the mercy of the cards.

I like blackjack. I like the psychology of poker.

I've been playing Texas Hold 'em and other forms of poker since I was about 12.

Luck is the great stabilizer in baseball.

Never bet on baseball.

I'm not a good poker player, but I've got one bluffing technique - as long as you're quick with the blinds, you're fine.

If I'm playing cards for pennies, I want to win.

Every poker player is smarter than me.

When I play poker, I don't like losing the pot.

Every poker player, like every fisherman, needs to have a story in a box, and most poker stories are completely uninteresting.

Sometimes a 3-1 favorite loses. That's why they call it gambling, and that's why they keep flipping over the cards.

I like to play cards. I'm not very good, because I don't want to calculate, I just play by instinct. But I've learned a lot of business philosophy by playing poker.