Daniel Silva Quotes

The only things I'm competitive in are backgammon and poker.

Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck.

No, that's poker. To win, you've gotta get damned lucky.

Poker has such an element of competitivness that other games don't have.

Most amusements only mean trying to win another person's money.

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

I've become addicted to playing poker because you're constantly faced with confusion, and winning is trying to make sense out of nonsense.

You play. You win. You play. You lose. You play.

Poker is supposed to be fun.

If you're playing the best of 19, and it's 7-7 and there's only five frames left, you tend to take a few more chances.

The nice thing about baseball is that all of the possible outcomes are known - it's not quite as messy as the real world. That makes the game an excellent playground for probability.

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

Whether football or board games, I love to win.

Football was easy because I knew what I was doing, and it was in my control.

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

Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet you can't win.

Football is like chess, only without the dice.

I have yet to be in a game where luck was involved.

This was my first lesson about gambling: if you see somebody winning all the time, he isn't gambling, he's cheating. Later on in life, if I were continuously losing in any gambling situation, I would watch very closely.

I don’t like gambling very much. I don’t like being at the mercy of those little white squares that roll around and decide whether you win or lose. I like to have the say-so myself.

I still feel like my game is very dangerous. I always will have my serve.

I mean maybe I was holding all the aces, but what was the game?

Took awhile, got the jokers out of the deck now, I'm holdin all the cards and niggas wanna play chess now

I'm not a betting man, and even if I was, I certainly wouldn't bet on this! I would not bet on the Best Actor.

I have yet to be in a game where luck was involved. Well-prepared players make plays. I have yet to be in a game where the most prepared team didn't win.