Hellmuth Quotes & Sayings

Repetition draws us into music, and repetition draws music into us. — Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis

Let me complain-it's good for television. — Phil Hellmuth

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

If there weren't luck involved, I would win every time. — Phil Hellmuth

I can dodge bullets, baby! — Phil Hellmuth

I think that we are all in the right place at the right time almost every day. It's the people who are prepared to be lucky who can take advantage of being there. How do these people position themselves to be lucky? It was Goethe who said, 'Anytime that you take the first step toward trying to achieve something in life, all manner of good things will mysteriously fall into your path to help speed you along your way.' Amen to that! — Phil Hellmuth

If you never bluff, you'll rarely get called. If you bluff all the time, you'll always get called. — Phil Hellmuth

Telling Phil Hellmuth a bad beat story, is like telling Joan Rivers a Botox Story — Norman Chad

When we acknowledge how, just by living and listening, we have all acquired deep musical knowledge, we must also recognise that music is not the special purview of professionals. Rather, music professionals owe their existence to the fact that we, too, are musical. Without that profound shared understanding, music would have no power to move us ["The Music In You," Aeon, January 8, 2015]. — Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis

I played so perfect, I couldn't play more perfect. — Phil Hellmuth

To this point, musical repetition has been viewed as a particular kind of object. But it can also be viewed as a particular kind of behavior. — Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis