Rajiv Ouseph Quotes

You're not supposed to get rattled in poker; you're supposed to remain poker-faced!

I think one of the interesting things about poker is that once you let your ego in, you're done for.

I'm not a guy that shows a lot of emotion while I'm playing.

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.

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

In almost any situation, it is far more devastating to keep your icy cool while the other person gets herself in a flush-cheeked, teary-eyed hot mess yelling in your face.

I don't like to show my emotions at the board, not because they might give something away to an opponent, but because that's my style: I like to keep it to myself.

We believe it is bad or dangerous to be carried away by our emotions. We admire the person who is cool, who acts without feeling.

My biggest problem in live games is that I love the game so much and I don't think I ever met a poker player I didn't fundamentally like - even if they're screaming and they're acting like real jerks.

The Queen is not supposed to have a favourite or prefer anything. From a very young age, they are taught that if you fall down, you don't make a face; you keep your emotions under control, and you don't let other people know what you're feeling. That's a very different kind of way of thinking from how I was brought up.

Having no emotions is the most difficult, to tone it down.

I'm fairly unemotional and tend not to get too excited when things go well and I tend not to get too depressed when they go badly.

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

You don't gotta let the girls know you're sweating, honey.

I'm really go-with-the-flow, but I take things really seriously. At the same time, when things don't go my way, I don't ever freak out. Why? Why freak out?

I'm not an emotional fighter.

I've been an idiot at the poker table for a long time.

Even as a boy, my dad always told me, 'Don't show emotion.' If I banged my cue, he would give me a row and say, 'Stop that.' Don't show any petulance. It was developed, certainly, but I think you have got to have it in you.

I think I'm very calm in adversity, always remaining calm, and I don't panic. I think that's the main thing.

Without emotional control you cannot play, influence; you cannot react. You have to know what you have to do and not react. You have to be cool.

So I learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts.

I've got ice water running through my veins, I'm cool.

Who, in the midst of just provocation to anger, instantly finds the fit word which settles all around him in silence is more than wise or just; he is, were he a beggar, of more than royal blood, he is of celestial descent.

It is not the man who is beside himself, but he who is cool and collected,--who is master of his countenance, of his voice, of his actions, of his gestures, of every part of his play,--who can work upon others at his pleasure.