Top 38 Chris Moneymaker Quotes
#1. Chris (Moneymaker) winning that tournament has made the rest of us a lot of money.
Greg Raymer
#2. Other than that and the fact that I don't have to work any more my life hasn't changed a bit.
Chris Moneymaker
#3. I actually do quite well in Omaha. It's one of my better games. I love pot-limit Omaha and Omaha high-low. I do quite well in them. If I play in a casino, I usually play some kind of mixed game with Omaha and hold 'em.
Chris Moneymaker
#4. Looking at these photographs, I know that I will never understand the world I live in or fully know the places I've been. I've learned for sure only what I don't know - and how much I have to learn.
Anthony Bourdain
#5. World Class players can lay down the toughest hands and play any two cards at any time without fear. Their reads are impeccable.
Chris Moneymaker
#6. When I had a full-time job, I really wasn't that busy, but now I'm really busy. I guess that's a good thing.
Chris Moneymaker
#8. I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic training to do a translation of the New Testament.
Daniel Everett
#9. I'm comfortable with the hold 'em, Omaha and stud high-low. But the other two games aren't my strongest games. I'm not comfortable at all with razz or stud.
Chris Moneymaker
#10. I have to understand the nature of change. And I cannot just work with stone or the more permanent materials. I need to work with leaves and ice and snow and mud and clay and water and the rising tide and the wind and all these.
Andy Goldsworthy
#12. When I was broke, no one ever offered to buy me a beer. Now that I have quite a bit of money, everybody tries to buy me beers. Where were all these people back when I was in college and broke?
Chris Moneymaker
#13. Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure.
Frances Burney
#14. I used to sports gamble a lot and I was getting killed on that but then I found poker and really enjoyed it. But it was a hobby more than anything else. I played it every day but only on pretty small stakes.
Chris Moneymaker
#15. The competition has improved tremendously. In 2003, I could teach a guy how to play poker in an hour and he could win some money. Today, it would take days. The game has gotten so much tougher. So I will spend my time with my family and play when I can.
Chris Moneymaker
#16. Never in a million years did I think the sport of poker would blow up the way it did.
Chris Moneymaker
#17. If you're a poker player and you show up at a casino at 8 a.m., you're going to be by yourself or with some people that are rocks and just don't give you any action.
Chris Moneymaker
#18. I always pretend like I'm nervous no matter what. I try to fall asleep.
Chris Moneymaker
#19. The pros really like all the new people playing poker because they love the dead money; but when the money wins they don't like that very much at all.
Chris Moneymaker
#20. Although I have to say, it's become a lot harder for me since I won the world series because everyone wants to beat me. For example, bluffing is really tough now, because there's always someone who calls me on the off-chance that they'll then be able to say they read a world champion's bluff.
Chris Moneymaker
#21. If you see me playing a $1/$2 no-limit on PokerStars, I'm probably experimenting with something, trying something new seeing how it works.
Chris Moneymaker
#22. If you want to make money and have action, you need to work from like, 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. Those are the hours. That just doesn't fit with a lot of people's schedules. And that's just the start of it. You've got to realize what you are getting into.
Chris Moneymaker
#23. Poker has such an element of competitivness that other games don't have.
Chris Moneymaker
#24. I've talked a lot with Greg Raymer and Joe Hachem. Being on Team PokerStars with them has helped me out quite a bit. I've traveled around Europe playing with them. I've also talked with Robert Williamson here and there and Jim Worth. So I've had some good people to talk to and bounce ideas off of.
Chris Moneymaker
#25. But I want people to understand that poker's not all glamorous, it's not all being on TV and making tons of money. It's a hard life. It's a lot of travel. It's a lot of weird hours.
Chris Moneymaker
#26. Not having the online game has made it more difficult. There are a lot of young and upcoming players in poker. But you don't get to see them because TV has sort of been taken away.
Chris Moneymaker
#27. She found fault with every dish put in front if her, including the salt, which she declared was not salty enough.
Terry Pratchett
#29. In this world are many people who do not master their bodies. Such people say that no one can tell them what to do, not even God, and they think that in this way they have no master. In the end they become slaves to anything.
Michael D. O'Brien
#30. I don't play a lot of tournaments, but if I don't win a tournament in a year, people are like, 'What in the world is going on?' People don't realize how hard it is to win tournaments. You're not going to go out and play 10 tournaments and win one of them. Your odds aren't that good.
Chris Moneymaker
#31. For the most part, I get to do what I want to do. If I want to play poker, I can. If I don't want to play poker, I don't have to.
Chris Moneymaker
#32. My favourite movie right now is probably 'Hitch', a Will Smith thing.
Chris Moneymaker
#33. The beautiful thing about poker is that everybody thinks they can play.
Chris Moneymaker
#34. Without consciousness, space and time are nothing.
Robert Lanza
#35. Locking away appetite, anger, the fullness of life, anorexia helps cover up whatever struggles inside. With its controlling bouts of bingeing and starvation, of trance and half-life, it becomes a shield to fend off despair and longing and what most of use would see as ordinary responsible behavior.
Carol Lee
#36. My biggest fear was public speaking, and then having everyone know who I was, it was definitely weird at first. When I first won, it was definitely a culture shock, it was something I wasn't quite ready for.
Chris Moneymaker
#37. The hardest thing about having three kids is trying to find a balance, because there's always the odd man out, and you also need to make sure each child gets the attention he or she needs.
Patrick Dempsey
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