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I think if you're talking about 'Jeopardy' style, I'm not afraid to throw the deep ball, even if it might get picked off, so Deshaun Watson I think would be the best comparison.
- James Holzhauer
#Afraid
#Ball
#Best
#Style
#Talking
I first got into gambling because it was a way for me to leverage my love of baseball statistics. For the first few years, that's all I would focus on.
- James Holzhauer
#Focus
#Gambling
#Love
#Me
#Way
There's nothing better for my interests and talents than combining math and sports for profit.
- James Holzhauer
#Better
#Nothing
#Profit
#Sports
#Than
Anytime you learn something new, you're just trying to file it away - might be useful one day.
- James Holzhauer
#Day
#New
#One Day
#Trying
#Useful
When I watched 'Jeopardy!' as a kid, I would primarily watch with my grandmother. She was the most beautiful person the world has ever seen. Her first language wasn't English, so she couldn't follow along well, but she wanted to share this experience with me since she saw it was something I really liked.
- James Holzhauer
#Beautiful
#Experience
#Most Beautiful
I did want to lock each game up before Final Jeopardy, to avoid losing to a bad bounce in that round.
- James Holzhauer
#Avoid
#Bad
#Bounce
#Game
#Losing
All good professional gamblers are selectively aggressive.
- James Holzhauer
#Aggressive
#Gamblers
#Good
#Professional
I really like not having to justify my decisions to anyone else, as well as the freedom to vacation whenever I want.
- James Holzhauer
#Decisions
#Freedom
#Vacation
#Want
#Well
I hope that my 'Jeopardy' run helps destigmatize sports betting because I have certainly dealt with some stigmas.
- James Holzhauer
#Because
#Betting
#Dealt
#Hope
#Sports
My source of income is sports betting. I have some investments also.
- James Holzhauer
#Betting
#Income
#Some
#Source
#Sports
If you believe in yourself, you don't have to do things the same way everyone else is doing it.
- James Holzhauer
#Believe In Yourself
#Believe
#Yourself
It definitely helps that I can bet big with ice water in my veins.
- James Holzhauer
#Bet
#Big
#I Can
#Veins
#Water
I think there's a mental block for betting big amounts that doesn't exist for me but it does for other people.
- James Holzhauer
#Betting
#Big
#Exist
#Me
#People
The last real job I had I was 16-years-old slinging fried chicken in my hometown of Naperville, Ill.
- James Holzhauer
#Chicken
#Fried Chicken
#Hometown
#Real
As a general rule, the less time a bookmaker has to set his odds the softer the odds are going to be.
- James Holzhauer
#General
#Going
#Odds
#Set
#Time
My parents were both very frugal, and I think they're responsible for my attitude of always looking for good value, especially in my work. In a way, sports betting is like a big game of 'The Price Is Right:' just like I'd pay $3 for a Coke Zero but not $4, I'd lay three points on the Bears-Packers point spread but not four.
- James Holzhauer
#Attitude
#Game
#Good
#Sports
#Work
I figured, maybe one in five, one in 10 people would recognize me. But no, it's everywhere, especially in Las Vegas. I think the city's kind of embraced me which is good.
- James Holzhauer
#City
#Good
#Me
#People
#Think
In gambling we say you are 'on tilt' when your mood gets in the way of making your best decisions. And nobody plays well on tilt.
- James Holzhauer
#Best
#Gambling
#Mood
#Nobody
#Way
Jeopardy!' is a bigger deal than I realized.
- James Holzhauer
#Bigger
#Deal
#Jeopardy
#Realized
#Than
I've already begun giving to children's nonprofits in the Las Vegas area.
- James Holzhauer
#Area
#Begun
#Children
#Giving
#Vegas
The aggressive betting on the daily doubles is one of my trademarks.
- James Holzhauer
#Aggressive
#Betting
#Daily
#Doubles
Like Dave Mustaine, I ain't superstitious.
- James Holzhauer
#Dave
#Like
#Superstitious
I wouldn't recommend sports betting as a career. It requires a ton of effort and mastery of many different skills, and successful bettors are unwilling to teach you because you would be their competition.
- James Holzhauer
#Career
#Competition
#Effort
#Mastery
#Sports
Baseball was my goal from a young age, but gambling had significantly fewer barriers to entry.
- James Holzhauer
#Age
#Barriers
#Baseball
#Gambling
#Young
I've found that in an adult reference book, if it's not a subject I'm interested in, I just can't get into it. I was thinking, what is the place in the library I can go to to get books tailored to make things interesting for uninterested readers? Boom. The children's section.
- James Holzhauer
#Children
#Go
#Library
#Place
#Thinking
Getting onto 'Jeopardy!' was a pet project my whole life, so it was something I was willing to work really hard on.
- James Holzhauer
#Hard
#Life
#Pet
#Project
#Work
Parenting is much more nerve-wracking than 'Jeopardy!'
- James Holzhauer
#Jeopardy
#More
#Much
#Parenting
#Than
It's one thing to skip class to play poker, but if I'm learning how to think in the real world playing poker, then maybe that's more valuable than a college education could've been.
- James Holzhauer
#Education
#Learning
#More
#Play
#Real
#World
I know life goes on if you make a big bet and you lose. But if you don't give yourself the best chance of winning, you're going to kick yourself tomorrow.
- James Holzhauer
#Best
#Chance
#Life
#Lose
#Tomorrow
#Winning
My daughter learned to say, 'They're not even trying to cover!' before her second birthday.
- James Holzhauer
#Before
#Birthday
#Daughter
#Her
#Say
#Trying
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