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

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

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"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

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

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

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"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

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"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

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"Money won is twice as sweet as money earned"

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

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"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

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"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)

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"Bad beats only happen to good players."

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

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"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

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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.

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

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

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"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

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"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)

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"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

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"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

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


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

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


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

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"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)

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"A faint heart never filled a spade flush."

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