Famous Poker Quotes...

"Lon, if you're going to laydown a set of tens there you might as well be selling refrigerator magnets on the beach."

--------------Norman Chad, after Tommy Reed tells David "the Dragon" Pham that he mucked a set of tens on a A, J, 7, 10 board with two diamonds.

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"If the shoe fits, steal it."

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

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"Hold'em - like life itself - has its defining moment. It's the flop. When you see the flop, you're looking at 71 percent of your hand, and the cost is only a single round of betting."

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

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Ike Clanton: "What is that Holliday? Twelve hands in a row? Ain't nobody that lucky."

Doc Holliday: "Why Ike, whatever do you mean? Maybe poker's just not your game. I know! Let's have a spelling contest!"

From one of my favorite movies...... Tombstone

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"Show me a good loser and I'll show you a loser.'

----------------Stu Ungar

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

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

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"There are few things that are so unpardonably neglected in our country as poker... Why, I have known clergymen, good men, kindhearted, liberal, sincere, and all that, who did not know the meaning of a 'flush'. It is enough to make one ashamed of one's species."

-------------Mark Twain

Famous Movie Quotes...

"A day may come when the courage of Men fails... when we forsake our friends, and break all bonds of fellowship... but it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields when all hope comes crashing down, but it is NOT this day! This day, we fight!"

-------------Aragorn, at the Black Gate

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"Poker: the art of civilized bushwhacking."

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

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“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

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“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

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


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

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"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'

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

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

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

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