Phil Hellmuth Quotes

I'm just competitive. It doesn't matter what it is. I want to win.

I'm pretty competitive. I talk a big game - even when I'm going to lose.

I take laser tag incredibly seriously. I am an extremely competitive person - most likely a little over the top at times, but that's just who I am.

People just don't understand how obsessed I am with winning.

I know what it's like to win things. You need a certain type of player with a determination to win. You see it in the eyes.

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

To me, everything's competition.

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.

I love to win, honestly... If you love to win, you should say it. And honestly, I'm hooked on it.

If I had been born with an aggressive character, then maybe my palmares would have been longer.

To be able to have winning in your blood growing up, whether it was pounding my little brother or trying to beat my dad in something, or just competing on teams with my friends, it was nonstop.

It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.

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

In everything I've done, I always just hated to lose more than I like to win.

I love the sport and being competitive.

I've said many times, 'You learn to win through not liking to lose.' And that's what I mean by learning how to win.

I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.

I certainly like to win. But I really hate to lose. So when you think about that, you're always motivated to, 'I don't want to lose the next game. I don't want to lose the next game.'

I always ask myself the question, do you like to win, or do you hate to lose?

I play poker face to face.

Look, most players can't stand to be outplayed by an opponent's bluff. Quite honestly, though, it doesn't bother me that much.

People also think Christians are very passive people, and that drives me crazy as an athlete because if you watch me play and compete, I'm the furthest thing from passive that you'll see on the baseball field. I love to compete, and I love to win.

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

When I do something, I want to win. If I lose, I feel bad.

Win at all cost. That's why I love playing the game.