He said the above line while urging his audience to sing along with his beautiful California Bloodlines. It s one of those songs that if you were driving through the desert alone in the middle of the night, you would just have to sing along. This begs the question of why the stiflers would go to a concert. Of course, some people go to a concert just to look cool. That is the goal in itself.
Different people play poker for different reasons.
And, people often have multiple reasons for playing. Getting the money. Winning poker is about getting the money. It s not about playing as high as you can buy in, or having showy piles of chips, or winning a bunch of tournament titles. You may want to achieve these things for other reasons, they may often be by-products of winning, but these things are not the stuff of playing to win.