Jeff Smith Quotes

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.

Poker is a skill game pretending to be a chance game.

That's chess!" snapped Ron. "You've got to make some sacrifices!

Golf is a percentage game, and I play the percentages.

At gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck.

Football is like chess, only without the dice.

Chess is a matter of delicate judgement, knowing when to punch and how to duck.

Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.

A man's idee in a card game is war

By playing at Chess then, we may learn... First: Foresight. Second: Circumspection. Third: Caution.

The bizarre world of cards is a world of pure power politics where rewards and punishments are meted out immediately.

Blackjack is very scientific. There's always a right answer and a wrong answer. Do you take a card, increase your bet, bet big or bet small. There's absolutely a right and wrong answer.

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

Yes, I think poker really isn't gambling.

I'm fascinated with films that deal with strategy because there's a right way and a wrong way to get the job done.

You gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, know when to run.

Analysis of opponents is something I like doing.

I have been doing this for a long, and it is the players who learn who you need to work with. You have to coach them to think and understand the game. If they cannot, then you have to tell them, 'You have to do this anyway,' but the best thing to do is say, 'Listen, if he is doing this, then maybe you have to do that.'

I understand now the different games and the different approaches that you need to take at different times, with different styles of play.

Chess is a great training ground for poker players because it's a math-based game, much like backgammon is.

Poker is all about comfort with uncertainty, after all.

The more games you play, the more game management you learn.

Actually, one of the fascinating things that I've learned playing chess is that the way you play chess is kind of like the way you live your life.

The best skill at cards is knowing when to discard.

It's okay," he informs me. "Your grandfather is teaching me how to play poker." If I know Grandad, that means what he'll really be teaching Sam is how to cheat.