Phil Hellmuth Quotes

Every tournament's different.

It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.

Luck is the great stabilizer in baseball.

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

You could play well and still lose.

No man can tell what the future may bring forth

Just because you make a good plan, doesn't mean that's what's gonna happen.

Some people plan their life out, and it occurs. Others have things they're thinking about, and things don't go that way.

I have been around this long enough to know that there are no givens in this particular sport. There are too many things that can go wrong. There are too many things that can change.

Sometimes you hit the ball on target and sometimes you don't.

Swimming a 50 m is like playing the pokies: you push a button, and you never know what is going come up; it may be a mixed bag.

David Haye was a better fighter than me, but it's not about the better fighter because the better fighter does not always win.

You never know what's going to happen throughout the course of a season.

Sometimes you make plays, sometimes you don't.

There are games when you do well, and others that go differently.

I read a statistic that in horse racing, the favourite only wins 12 per cent of their races. I'm not comparing myself to a horse or saying I'm the favourite - although my sister would say I can nag an awful lot - but nothing is guaranteed in sport. Anyone can step up and take what you perceive to be your place in the final.

In ice dancing, you cannot decide your result. You just have to do your best, and you can't decide if you win or not.

The point is [...] that you never know whether you've lost until you've lost. Anything can happen.

All of the thinking and planning that you do to get there, and then, in one minute, in one second, it just doesn't matter. It goes out the window. You either got it or you didn't. There is something kind of refreshing about that.

You never know why something works or doesn't.

Golf is a weird sport. Some days you got it. Some days you don't.

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

You never know what you're going to get as a receiver.

All I can do is do my best work, try to create the best kind of moment to moment reality that I can do. That's what I do. I'm an actor. And all the rest of it is like baseball. You hit the ball. Sometimes it goes in the hole. Sometimes it goes to the player.

Some projects go as you hope or imagine, and some change or reveal themselves in a different way; it depends.