“So do you believe in God?” he says.
“Yes I do.”
“Ok, then here is a question for you: do you believe God can do anything.”
“Sure.”
“Then do you believe he could create a mountain so big that he couldn’t move it?”
Tag: quotes
No Fear Of Failure
I saw this in an office today on a paper weight…”What would you do if you knew you could not fail?”
I’d move to California (Bay area) and start my own company.
Tim McCarver vs. John Madden
I’m having a hard time deciding which announcer gets on my nerves more.
Tim McCarver
- “I got my ‘splitter’ and my ‘plate’ mixed up and kind of called it a ‘splate.’ It’s a new word I made up.”
- “A walk is as good as a home run.”
- “If the double play is a pitcher’s best friend, what is a fielder’s choice? An acquaintance?”
- “National league pitchers pitch Edmonds up and in. That is his strength and his weakness.”
- “If football is a game of inches then baseball is a game of inch.”
- “Yankee pitchers have had great success this year against Cabrera when they get him out.”
John Madden
- “The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.”
- “It’s kind of hard to keep your head from being lopsided if you have half of the field in your helmet.”
- “You can only make one play at a time.”
- “Winning is a great deoderant.”
- “First down is a good down.”
- “Of course, if he had had control of the ball when he hit the ground, then it would have been a complete pass.”
John Madden wins in a Googlefight between the two.
Faith And Doubt
I’m a spiritual person who lacks a vocabulary for it.
Brilliant! I’ve always looked for the right words to express my beliefs and now I have them.
Being Satisfied
I am easily satisfied with the very best.
Winston Churchill
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Edison
I never made a film which fully satisfied me.
Roman Polanski
Is being satisfied a good thing or a bad thing?
Quotes From Rounders
I’ve listed some of the best Rounders quotes. There are quite a few I left out, but I tried to pick quotes that were meaningful even if you don’t know the context in which they were spoken.
If you can’t spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you are the sucker.
Always leave yourself outs.
It’s immoral to let a sucker keep his money.
You know what, fuck you and your never ending string of boats.
We can’t run from who we are…our destiny chooses us.
In the poker game of life, women are the rake. They are the fucking rake.
Throw in your cards the moment you know they can’t win…fold the hand.
I can’t lose what I don’t put in the middle.
You know this is one time I don’t need you to tell me how I fucked up. I know I fucked up.
In a heads up match, the size of your stack is almost as important as the quality of your cards.
Don’t splash the pot.
People insist on calling it luck.
Rounders
Mike Caro University
I just finished watching a poker seminar video by Mike Caro University. Very good stuff! I think I’m going to start visiting his site for some good reading material.
During the seminar he gave a lot of good advice. Most of which I’ve never thought about, but made complete sense after hearing it. Following is one of the greatest pieces of information that a poker player needs to understand and learn:
You’re not getting paid to win pots; you’re getting paid to make good decisions.
Mike Caro
What a simple concept, but such a hard one for most people to grasp. In poker, you don’t make money by winning a lot of pots. If you win a lot of plots, it usually means that you are playing a lot of hands. When you play a lot of hands, there are a lot of pots that you do not win. Over time, you will lose money playing like this.
You get paid off (make money) in poker by making good decisions. These good decisions will win pots and over a period of time, you will make money. Making good decisions can be the hardest part of poker, because our natural instincts attempt to take over when we think we might be able to win, but the odds for us are bad. You really need to train the way you think while playing poker, because if your mind isn’t focused, you’ll make bad decisions, which ends up costing you money.
Internetting
I’m catching up on my Internetting. Lindsay Lawes
My Quote
Andy Rooney
Today I received an email forward from a friend with a bunch of Andy Rooney quotes. I’ve received similar messages a few times before and each time I read them I like Rooney more and more.
Here are a few of the items from the email:
I think that if you feel homosexuality is wrong, it is not a phobia, it is an opinion.
I don’t think being a minority makes you a victim of anything except numbers. The only things I can think of that are truly discriminatory are things like the United Negro College Fund, Jet Magazine, Black Entertainment Television, and Miss Black America. Try to have things like the United Caucasian College Fund, Cloud Magazine, White Entertainment Television, or Miss White America; and see what happens. Jesse Jackson will be knocking down your door.
I have the right “NOT” to be tolerant of others because they are different, weird, or tick me off. When 70% of the people who get arrested are black, in cities where 70% of the population is black, that is not racial profiling, it is the Law of Probability.
In addition to these examples, I found a website with a whole page full of Andy Rooney thoughts. It makes for interesting reading material.
Nick Momrik 