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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me.

I'm not a great card player. Keeping my cards close has always been a challenge for me.

The simplest way to say it is that I think we're all dealt these cards in life, but the cards in and of themselves don't read one way or the other. It's up to you to home in and cultivate whatever you've got in your hand.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

Most professional players are their own biggest critics. Some of the things you read in the papers that strike you as bang out of order will already have been thought by the players themselves.

It is difficult to single out any one player, as I aim to give my best against every single player that I have played so far against.