Negreanu Quotes

#1. Every sane and sensible and quiet thing we do is absolutely ignored by the press.

Bertrand Russell

#2. Watch your mouth," Mahlia said, "or I'll stitch your guts shut.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#3. When you're playing cards you can't constantly think about what the money costs you in the real world. You can't be constantly concerned about that if you want to be successful.

Daniel Negreanu

#4. I think Donald Trump is a complete and utter buffoon and a cancer to our society.

Daniel Negreanu

#5. He did say I fascinated him, but he really should have clarified to me that I was just the fascination for the day.

Abbi Glines

#6. I've seen so many thousands of hands that I am just going to be right more often than most people.

Daniel Negreanu

#7. If I haven't played with a player before and I don't know anything about them, the more they tell me about themselves, the better I will be able to judge how they think and how they play.

Daniel Negreanu

#8. The responsibility to do missionary work rests with every member of the Church.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#9. Playing people and position post-flop are definitely my strengths. When I get into a hand, I'm aggressive but I'm also paying attention to my opponent's betting patterns.

Daniel Negreanu

#10. The thing that can get confusing is you think, is this guy really a good player or does he just seem that way based on the way that they are playing. That takes longer to figure out, if they really are a good player or they just seem like one [bad].

Daniel Negreanu

#11. If you call a hundred dollars but have a chance to win $10,000, those are excellent odds if you are at a table with people who have two aces or two kings. If you catch a flop you will get all their chips. I just play them because there is value.

Daniel Negreanu

#12. In America everyone plays bang ball, eight ball, nine ball, that kind of stupid crap, but in Canada and Europe they play snooker which is a much more skillful game and I enjoy that. I play pool now with friends, if we go to a bar we will play, but I am nowhere near as good as I once was.

Daniel Negreanu

#13. Too many players focus on physical tells. For both online and live games, you should be focusing more on betting patterns and histories. The ability to figure out your opponent's hand based on his betting pattern is a crucial skill.

Daniel Negreanu

#14. I prefer being able to see my opponent. It is just different for me; I didn't grow up with the internet age really.

Daniel Negreanu

#15. I post probably 5 to 10 times a day in my forum. I have a forum directly related to my blog where I will write my blog and people will disagree with me and call me an idiot so then I will say this is why I wrote that and blah, blah, blah. I spend a lot of time online.

Daniel Negreanu

#16. I started out as a teenager I was a snooker player, or pool player. Through that I met some other teenagers that were gamblers, if you will, who started basement games. I was just sort of learning on the go, losing my $10.

Daniel Negreanu

#17. Any work of art ... is great when it makes you feel that its creator has dipped into your very heart for his sensation.

Fannie Hurst

#18. The majority of players are looking for reasons to fold. I am looking for reasons to play.

Daniel Negreanu

#19. Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?

Mary Shelley

#20. I need some money. You got any money?

Daniel Negreanu

#21. All over the U.S. there are people whose lives are being destroyed for lack of proper health care provision, and there is no sight more odious than the rich, powerful and arrogant trying to keep it that way.

Simon Hoggart