Famous Poker Quotes...

"Poker: the art of civilized bushwhacking."

-------------Nick Dandalos, attributed

Famous Poker Quotes...

“A typical final table takes 8-10 hours. We’re going to show 45 minutes of it. Of the 150-200 hands that are played, we show 15 of them.”


---------------Norman Chad

Famous Poker Quotes...

“I wish I wasn’t alive to hear this.”

--------------Norman Chad, when Mike “The Mouth” Matusow threw a fit after a losing hand

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“To be honest with you, Lon, when you travel with your mother, it usually doesn't intimidate the other players.”

-----------------Norman Chad, after 2004 runner-up David Williams hugged his mom

Famous Poker Quotes...

I'm all in.... what I got?

------------Anonymous -and- everyone I know in Omaha 8

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"Winning poker is about making correct decisions."

------------ Phil Gordon (from Phil Gordon's Little Green Book calendar)

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"Hit the other fellow, as quick as you can, and as hard as you can, where it hurts him most, when he ain't lookin'."

-------------Unrecorded British sergeant-major, on the definition of strategy

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Famous Poker Quotes...

"War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want."


----------- General William T. Sherman

Famous Poker Quotes...

"It's unlucky to be superstitious."

-------------Roland Waters

Not-So-Famous Poker Quotes...

"Who gives you action?"

-----------Common banter between Rick & the Juice just prior to someone getting 'poke-chopped'

Famous Poker Quotes...

"There is a very easy way to return from a casino with a small fortune: go there with a large one."

------------ Jack Yelton

Famous Poker Quotes...

"May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't."

------------ General George S. Patton

Michael Grimm, 30 - America's Got Talent 2010, Auditions LA

Not-So-Famous Poker Quotes...

"I can't play poker with people who don't care anything about money!"

------------Bart (just after the Juice had hit an all-in $4K gut shot)

Famous Poker Quotes...

"Besides lovemaking and singing in the shower, there aren't many human activities where there is a greater difference between a person's self-delusional ability and their actual ability than in poker."

-------------Steve Badger

Famous Poker Quotes...

"Play good, and when all else fails - suck out."

-------------Susie Isaacs

Not-So-Famous Poker Quotes...

"Pass the cheese!"

------------Ron Walters (anytime he scoops a big pot)

Famous Poker Quotes...

"Poker is a lot like sex. Everybody thinks they are great at it, but most people don't really know what they're doing."

----------------Anonymous

Famous Poker Quotes...

“The rules of poker were designed to minimize the number of people that had to be shot at the table. When a rule is broken, the game suffers. If the host doesn't want to punish recidivist behavior, I have no problem being the asshole -- though I prefer the term 'sergeant-at-arms.'”

------------- Charles Star, A New York City resident and stand-up comedian

Not-So-Famous Poker Quotes...

"I cleaned their clocks alright, but sadly they had many clocks and I used very expensive clock cleaner."

-------------- Rick after a short-handed loss with the Juice & the Turlinator

Not-So-Famous Poker Quotes...

"That's me! That's all me! Give me the chips. Give 'em here!"

-------- The Juice announces after all cards are turned up and then watching ALL the chips go to someone else

Famous Poker Quotes...

"Nobody is always a winner, and anybody who says he is, is either a liar or doesn't play poker."

------------------- Amarillo Slim

Famous Poker Quotes...

“It never hurts for potential opponents to think you’re more than a little stupid and can hardly count all the money in your hip pocket, much less hold on to it..”

--------------- Amarillo Slim

Not Famous Yet Quotes.....

After raking a rather large pot in a weekly home game, he said:

"I'd trade it all for a little bit more!"

-------------Jim Loricchio

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Famous Poker Quotes...

I won my ticket on Titanic in a lucky hand of poker...a very lucky hand.

----------- Jack, in the Movie Titanic

Famous Poker Quotes...

"A person should gamble every day, because think of how bad it would be to walking around lucky and not know it."

-------------- Robert Turner

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Famous Poker Quotes...

“We had 13 players this year. I look to have better than 20 next year. It’s even liable to get up to be 50.”

--------------Benny Binion, after the 1973 WSOP

Famous Poker Quotes...

The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice is so pleasurable, that I assume it must be evil.

-------------Heywood Broun

Famous Poker Quotes...

Limit poker is a science, but no-limit is an art. In limit you are shooting at a target. In no-limit, the target comes alive and shoots back at you.


-------------Crandall Addington, Texas oil millionaire

Famous Quotes... (that can apply to poker)

"Chance favors the prepared mind."

--------------Louis Pasteur

Famous Poker Quotes...

The strong take from the weak and the smart take from the strong.

-----------Pete Carril, former Princeton basketball coach

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"The only bad luck for a good gambler is bad health. Any other setbacks are temporary aggravation."

--------------- Benny Binion

Famous Poker Quotes...

It's hard work. Gambling. Playing poker. Don't let anyone tell you different. Think about what it's like sitting at a poker table with people whose only goal is to cut your throat, take your money, and leave you out back talking to yourself about what went wrong inside. That probably sounds harsh. But that's the way it is at the poker table. If you don't believe me, then you're the lamb that's going off to the slaughter.

-------------Stu Unger

Famous Poker Quotes...

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.

---------------Kin Hubbard

Famous Poker Quotes...

"If we shoot him, we won't have anyone to play with."

-------------Wyatt Earp to Doc Holliday in the 1964 movie Cheyen Autumn, discussing what to do with a cheater

Famous Poker Quotes...

In the queer mess of human destiny the determining factor is luck. For every important place in life there are many men of fairly equal capacities. Among them luck decides who shall accomplish the great work, who shall be crowned with laurel, and who shall fall back into silence and obscurity.

-------------William E. Woodward

Famous Poker Quotes...

The commonest mistake in history is underestimating your opponent; happens at the poker table all the time.

-------------General David Shoup

Famous Poker Quotes...

Last night I stayed up late playing poker with tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.
-------------Steven Wright

Famous Poker Quotes...

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

-------------Josh Billings

Famous Poker Quotes...

I believe in luck. How else can you explain the success of those you dislike?

------------- Jean Cocteau

Famous Poker Quotes...

"They anticipate losing when they sit down and I try my darnedest not to disappoint one of them."

-----------------Amarillo Slim

Famous Poker Quotes...

"The smarter you play, the luckier you'll be."



---------------Mark Pilarski

Famous Poker Quotes...

"There's opportunity in poker.... If Horace Greeley were alive today, his advice wouldn't be "Go West, young man, and grow up with the country." Instead, he'd point to that deck of cards on table and say, Shuffle up and deal."

-----------------Lou Krieger

Famous Poker Quotes...

"I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand."

------------Jonathan Swift

Card Player Killed after men barge into Rocky Mount Home

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Card Player Killed after men barge into Rocky Mount home

Famous Poker Quotes...

"It's not enough to succeed. Others must fail."

-------------Gore Vidal

Famous Poker Quotes...

"If you know poker, you know people; and if you know people, you got the whole dang world lined up in your sights.

-------------Brett Maverick

Famous Poker Quotes...

"Well, I'll just pretend I was playin' with someone else's money."

------------ Jodie Foster as Annabelle in the movie Maverick

Famous Poker Quotes...

"Poker may be a branch of psychological warfare, an art form or indeed a way of life – but it is also merely a game, in which money is simply the means of keeping score."

------------Anthony Holden

Famous Poker Quotes...

"You cannot survive without that intangible quality we call heart. The mark of a top player is not how much he wins when he is winning but how he handles his losses. If you win for thirty days in a row, that makes no difference if on the thirty-first you have a bad night, go crazy, and throw it all away."

------------------Bobby Baldwin

Famous Poker Quotes...

"Money won is twice as sweet as money earned"

--------------Paul Newman as Fast Eddie in The Color of Money

Famous Poker Quotes...

"Poker is a combination of luck and skill. People think mastering the skill part is hard, but they're wrong. The trick to poker is mastering the luck."

-------------Jesse May

Famous Poker Quotes...

"The good news is that in every deck of fifty-two cards there are 2,598,960 possible hands. The bad news is that you are only going to be dealt one of them."

-------------Anthony Holden, author of Big Deal (1990)

Famous Poker Quotes...

"Bad beats only happen to good players."

--------------Joe Crow

Famous Poker Quotes...

"The two things you need to be successful in poker are, first, find the muck, and second, don’t play your own money."

---------------David "Devilfish" Ulliott

Famous Poker Quotes...

Dr. Robert Chase: "Gambling doesn't take away his pain."
Dr. Gregory House: [enters] "It does if I win."

Quote from the TV-Series House, M.D.

Famous Poker Quotes...

"Omaha is a game that was invented by a Sadist and is played by Masochists."

--------------- Shane Smith

Famous Poker Quotes...

"Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; thou the way you play it is free will."

-----------Jawaharlal Nehru

Famous Poker Quotes...

"I wonder if a horse-shoe stuck in your butt is something you can look up on WebMD...."



Norman Chad (referencing squabble when Scotty Nguyen tells Michael DiMichele that he has a horseshoe up his butt)

Famous Poker Quotes...

"If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability."


-------------Vannevar Bush, architect of the Internet

Famous Poker Quotes...

"I believe in poker the way I believe in the American Dream. Poker is good for you. It enriches the soul, sharpens the intellect, heals the spirit, and - when played well, nourishes the wallet."


---------------Anonymous

Famous Poker Quotes...

"Your first duty is to the Game; then come Mother, God, and Country."


-------------Anonymous, Motto at the National Press Club, Washington DC

Famous Poker Quotes...

"In a game of poker, I can put the players' souls in my pocket."


------------Beausourire, Haitian Poker Player

Famous Poker Quotes...

"Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression: If you cards are good enough for your to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with."


-------------Alfred Alvarez (2001)

Famous Poker Quotes...

"A faint heart never filled a spade flush."

---------------Anonymous

Famous Poker Quotes...

"Serious poker is no more about gambling than rock climbing is about taking risks."

---------------Alfred Alvarez

Famous Poker Quotes...

Dear Lord, help me to break even. I need the money.

-------------Anonymous

Famous Poker Quotes...

"Industry executives and analysts often mistakenly talk about strategy as if it were some kind of chess match. But in chess, you have just two opponents, each with identical resources, and with luck playing a minimal role. The real world is much more like a poker game, with multiple players trying to make the best of whatever hand fortune has dealt them. In our industry, Bill Gates owns the poker table until someone proves otherwise."


-------------David Moschella

Famous Poker Quotes...

"Life is too long to play bad cards."

------------Frank Di Elsi

Famous Quotes...

"The game exemplifies the worst aspects of capitalism that have made our country so great."


-------------Walter Matthau

Famous Quotes...

"Poker is the only game for a grown man. Then, your hand is against every man's, and evern man's hand is against yours. Teamwork? Who ever made a fortune by teamwork?"

-------------Somerset Maugham

Famous Quotes...

"Opportunity may knock, but it seldom nags."


-------------David Mamet

Famous Poker Quotes...

"Sometimes you'll miss a bet, sure, but it's OK to miss a bet. Poker is an art form, of course, but sometimes you have to sacrifice art in favour of making a profit."

------------Mike Caro

Famous Quotes...

"All I know is, if the cards ever break even — I’m screwed."


------------Rich Korbin

Famous Quotes...

"Is you in or is you out?"

------------Louis Gossett, Jr from the movie "ALL IN"

Famous Poker Quotes...

Mae West: "Is poker a game of chance?"

W.C. Fields: "Not the way I play it. — My Little Chickadee"

Famous Poker Quotes...

"......that's poker and just because you have pains, you don't have to be one."

Doyle Brunson in his blog after talking about losing some big pots

Famous Poker Quotes...

"Who are we waiting on?"



--------------Everyone that plays in a game with the Turlinator

Famous Poker Quotes...

"Once you start thinking you have nothing left to learn, you have everything to learn."

------------Steve Badget

Famous Poker Quotes...

"In the long run there's no luck in poker, but the short run is longer than most people know."


-------------Rick Bennet

Famous Poker Quotes...

"I've often thought, if I got really hungry for a good milk shake, how much would I pay for one? People will pay a hundred dollars for a bottle of wine; to me that's not worth it. But I'm not going to say it is foolish or wrong to spend that kind of money, if that's what you want. So if a guy wants to bet twenty or thirty thousand dollars in a poker game, that is his privilege."

------------Jack Binion

Famous Poker Quotes...

"It's not whether you won or lost, but how many bad-beat stories you were able to tell."

-------------Grantland Rice, Sportswriter

Famous Poker Quotes...

"Egotism is the anesthetic provided by nature to dull the pain of being a damn fool."


------------ Chuck Humphrey

Famous Quotes...

"Money won't buy you happiness, but it will buy you the kind of misery that you can thoroughly enjoy...."

------------Anonymous

Famous Poker Quotes...

"Losing is like smoking. It's habit forming."

--------------Puggy Pearson, 1973 WSOP winner (2001)

Famous Poker Quotes...

"To master poker and make it profitable, you must first master patience and discipline, as a lack of either is a sure disaster regardless of all other talents, or lucky streaks."

-------------Freddie Gasperian

Famous Poker Quotes...

"A person should gamble every day, because think of how bad it would be to walk around being lucky and not know it."

------------- Robert Turner

Famous Poker Quotes...

'It's not whether you won or lost, but how many bad-beat stories you were able to tell."

------------ Grantland Rice, Sportswriter

Famous Poker Quotes...

"A card player should learn that once the money is in the pot, it isn't his any longer."

-------------Herbert Yardley (1957)

Famous Quotes from Stewie Griffin

Stewie (to one of the prostitutes at Cleveland's house): "So, is there any tread left on the tires? Or at this point would it be like throwing a hot dog down a hallway?"

Famous Quotes from Stewie Griffin

"Listen you, I'll use these facilities when I'm DAMN WELL READY!

Until then you shall continue to sanitize my crevasse and be DAMN GRATEFUL FOR THE OPPORTUNITY! Starting right... [He strains for a moment. Nothing happens.]

Well, not now... BUT SOON!"

Famous Poker Quotes...

"Poker is the game closest to the western conception of life, where life and thought are recognized as intimately combined, where free will prevails over philosophies of fate or of chance, where men are considered moral agents and where - at least in the short run - the important thing is not what happens but what people think happens."


------------- Johnny Luckacs (1963)

Famous Movie Quotes...

"I'm perfect if anybody wants a one-balled, deaf, blind, unemployed vagrant with a limp."

--------------Tom Selleck as Jon Aldrich from the 1992 movie "FOLKS"

Famous Quotes from Stewie Griffin

"I bet you lost your virginity to a mechanical bull."

Famous Quotes from Stewie Griffin

Stewie: [Picking up the phone.] Hello, operator. Hello... Oh god, that's right you have to punch in the numbers nowadays. Uhhh, I should know this. Oh yes, [dialing number] Stewie: 867-5309, yes that's it. Wait that's not it, damn you Tommy Two-Tone. Huh, only one thing to do 111-1111, Lois? Damn. 111-1112 Lois? DAMN. 111-1113...



-----------Steve Griffin