Quotes by Richard Roeper

• You can't take up golf on a whim and find yourself competing against Tiger Woods in the Masters six months later.
• Living in the past is a Jethro Tull album, not a smart poker strategy.
• Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
• I've been playing Texas Hold 'em and other forms of poker since I was about 12.
• Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women's magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day.
• You're not allowed to give yourself a nickname. This holds true in life as well as in poker.
• When we root-root-root for the home team, we're rooting for our home as much as the team.
• Well, I think one of the reasons Chicago became so popular as a filmmaker location is because New York had been used so many times that Chicago, I think, was rediscovered maybe in the late '60s, early '70s for a long time as a new location.
• Wal-Mart doesn't really care about your faith. Wal-Mart cares if you have money to spend, and it is going to be as generic as possible in exploiting the holiday season for every buck it can make.
• The truth is that our way of celebrating the Christmas season does spring from myriad cultures and sources, from St. Nicholas to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns.
• That's why I've always been appreciative of truly creative radio commercials.
• Sometimes a 3-1 favorite loses. That's why they call it gambling, and that's why they keep flipping over the cards.
• On first blush, Hold 'em seems like a ridiculously simple game.