“There are times when success doesn't make sense on a purely mathematic...” — Phil Hellmuth Quote

“There are times when success doesn't make sense on a purely mathematical basis. I've played absolutely perfectly before, put in a masterful performance, and then my perfect play evaporated because one guy lost his mind and got lucky. Of course, I've also won that way.”

“We have hillbillies with third grade educations and 8th grade educations who have conquered the poker world. There is no telling why someone is great at reading other people. Some people just are.”

“I'm pretty tall, and I'm always dressed in black.”

“As long as there is a mathematical chance, we have to keep on going.”

“I'm left-brained, so I'm all about a mathematical approach to language. I've always been interested in that.”

“The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the 'hard' sciences so brilliantly successful.”