Phil Hellmuth Quotes

I guess if there weren't luck involved, I'd win 'em all.

You write a hit the same way you write a flop.

Betting on the success of innovative technologies in the marketplace can carry all the uncertainty and risk that betting on the next card in the deck does at a blackjack table in Las Vegas. There is a factor of randomness that must be factored in, but precisely how to do so is anyone's guess.

Whether I win or not, it won't be down to inexperience and hopefully it won't be down to some sort of mental misjudgment.

This is football: one day you win, one day you lose, and there's a very fine line between them.

This is a crazy game we play. You're going to have those times you can't get out, and those times where you can do everything right, and the ball does not fall.

If luck weren't involved, I'd win every tournament!

The man who said 'I'd rather be lucky than good' saw deeply into life. People are afraid to face how great a part of life is dependent on luck. It's scary to think so much is out of one's control. There are moments in a match when the ball hits the top of the net and for a split second it can either go forward or fall back. With a little luck it goes forward and you win. Or maybe it doesn't and you lose.

Life is like a huge lottery in which only the winning tickets are visible.

You never know why something works or doesn't.

I've been on such a losing streak that if I had been around I would have taken General Custer and given points.

You know the old saying: you win some, you lose some... and then there's that little-known third category.

Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.

It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.

Much of what we do in life has a huge component of luck.

The payoffs in showbiz seemed as random as a slot machine.

Artists of all times are like the gamblers of Monte Carlo, and this blind lottery allows some to succeed and ruins others. In my opinion, neither the winners nor the losers are worth worrying about.

Any of the the 30 ball clubs have a chance at success, and the fans know that. It keeps everything exciting.

You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.

I never predict anything, and I never will.

When things go right it's hard to figure out why, but when things go wrong it's really easy.

Technology is like the ante in a poker game. It is the price you pay to play the game. But it doesn't mean you are going to win.

Luck is not scalable. Luck is not a national strategy.

Being famous is complete luck, and that's something you can't bank on.

There's no trajectory to follow. Even if you were to say, 'OK, I'm going to model my ascent based on this other person's,' luck and timing play such a big part that it's really futile.