Phil Hellmuth Quotes

Everyone gets lucky once in a while, but no one is consistently lucky.

Success is like winning the sweepstakes or getting killed in an automobile crash. It always happens to somebody else.

My success has been as full of luck as a crapshooter's dream.

A lot of it just has to do with luck, serendipity.

I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.

Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.

It's difficult because nothing's preordained by plan and you can't control it. That's one of those joys and thrills and nerve-racking realities of being an actor. A lot has to do with luck, no matter what your talent or contribution can be.

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

'Press Your Luck' was probably the most exciting because of the unpredictability of the game and how I won on one of the three days on the very last spin against all odds. It was one of those great unpredictable game show moments.

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.

I've always had a love of cards, ever since I was a little kid. I think poker, as a system, describes the chaos of the world. Our sudden reversals, our freak streaks of fortune. The belief that the next hand can save you, and the inevitable failure of the next hand to save you. I think that describes my world view pretty well.

There are always some surprises in the draw when people are playing pretty well.

Hope! fortune's cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!

May the flop be with you.

Good luck, I'm beginning to discover, is just as baffling as the bad. There never seems to be a reason for it - no sense of reward or punishment. It simply is - the most incomprehensible idea of all.

A man who trusts in luck better have plenty of it.

It [success] is really by mistake.

Even the losers get lucky sometimes!

You are much more dependent on luck than you think. People say if you want to have a good relationship, you have to work at it. But you never hear it about anything you really like, about sailing or going to soccer games.

To solicit the aid of luck is like stirring muddy water to bring objects submerged at the bottom to the top where they can be seen. Every worker would to well to tempt their good luck. Nevertheless, we should not depend on it too much.

Have to Find ...life ...is ...a— ...gamble ...after ...all.

Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure.

What is life, but one long risk?

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.

If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?