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I'm all about second chances.
Money is the great equalizer.
I don't really miss the Hollywood lifestyle.
I created a lot of drama and mess in my life.
In 2009, my tax returns showed over $4 million.
Ideally, I would like to not be in the public eye.
My mom had put her house up to bail me out of jail!
I made the choice to go into the world of underground poker.
Know when to fold. Pay attention to the signs. They're there.
I hang out with my grandma, go to sleep at 8:30, and that's it.
I don't think anyone's private life stands up to public scrutiny.
The human spirit is so resilient, and failure teaches you so much.
I'm finally my dad's favourite because Kevin Costner is playing him.
Because of athletics, I got real comfortable with risk at a young age.
The motivations I had for being successful were somewhat dysfunctional.
I'm definitely a gambler, as exemplified by the massive risks I've taken.
High stakes, low stakes, poor or rich - people will find a way to gamble.
I built the most exclusive and decadent high-profile club for powerful men.
You can tell a lot about a man's character by watching him win or lose money.
Tobey Maguire was the worst tipper, the best player, and the absolute worst loser.
Everyone has their dreams and their rise and their own version of a fall from grace.
I'd spent life so terrified of failure that when it happened, it was very liberating.
Life is about making choices, seeing those choices through, and living through consequences.
I've always been very ambitious and very determined and very compassionate at the same time.
I think my gift lies in being a startup entrepreneur and creating environments and experiences.
I believe that refusing to quit and refusing to fail will trump talent and brilliance in the end.
It took me three and a half years to go from being sentenced in federal court to going to the Oscars.
I was bankrolling the games, vetting the players, extending the credit. My life was really stressful.
When I'm in a hectic crowd of people, I don't feel great. I'm looking over my shoulder. I feel exposed.
Even if there are people around to help you, you don't suffer with an audience; you don't triumph with an audience.
When I was making the most money at the top of my game, driving Bentleys and all that, I felt so existentially empty.
When you're willing to play poker for two days and lose millions of dollars, it's no longer recreation. It's taking over.
Every card player in Hollywood wanted to come to the games. Everyone's friends and their friends wanted to come to watch.
Being humble got me very far when I went to L.A., because it was in stark contrast to this town of people who were so cutthroat.
I've seen what power women have in unification, and I would love to create co-working spaces and networks for female entrepreneurs.
I logged into my bank accounts, and they were all seized, all frozen. So that was a pretty clear indication that I was in big trouble.
I was in the company of movie stars, important directors, and powerful business tycoons. I felt like Alice tumbling down the rabbit hole.
My regular game in New York City was a $250,000 buy-in, no limit. So people were burning through that, a lot of times in the first 30 minutes.
I would love to raise a fund or get some awesome empowered women together and put together an advisory board to get behind female entrepreneurs.
I think my dad really wanted me to survive the world. He knew as a psychologist how difficult the world is, and I think he wanted me to be tough.
Getting the book published and the movie made was not an easy task. But it helped. Because even though it's a difficult life to explain, I lived it.
This was 2008, you know. The economy was falling apart, spiraling. And I was hosting a game in New York, and there was $5 to $7 million on the table.
In terms of my own life and the mistakes I made and the struggles I had, I'm grateful for them. It taught me more than success and opportunity ever did.
I have been hugely successful at times in my life, and I have also been in ruins. But the lessons I learned on the way up were just as valuable on the way down.
I know for sure that you have to re-define power as power that comes from within. Success needs to be more comprehensive and attached to something with meaning.
In sports, especially skiing, you have to be comfortable with risk. You have to have a relationship with fear, and it can't dominate the decision-making process.
I believed that writing my story was my best shot to be able to pay my mom and my attorneys back and pull myself out of this massive crisis that I had put myself in.
Look at the things you've done and ask for forgiveness. After clearing out that wreckage from the past, you can move forward, in a way, to keep your finger on the pulse.
I moved to Los Angeles. My parents were not on board with that, and so I had to get a lot of different jobs. One of them was working for a man in Hollywood who had a weekly poker game.
I approach everything, including sobriety, with the same mentality I approached sports with. You're going to put in the time. You've got to suit up, show up, and keep your eyes on the win.