Famous Poker Quote:

• If you re raise a raiser, and he doesn't raise you back, you know he has kicker problems.
  —Crandall Addington, Texas oil millionaire

• Poker is generally reckoned to be America's second most popular after-dark activity. Sex is good, they say, but poker lasts longer.
  —Alfred Alvarez

• Once you start thinking you have nothing left to learn, you have everything to learn.
  —Steve Badget

• Playing poker for a living gives you backbone. You cannot survive without that intangible quality we call heart.
  —Bobby Baldwin, 1978 WSOP winner

• In a game of poker, I can put the players' souls in my pocket.
  —Beausourire, Haitian Poker Player

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

• Trust everyone, but always cut the cards.
  —Benny Binion

• Try to decide how good your hand is at a given moment. Nothing else matters. Nothing!
  —Doyle Bunson

• If you’re a competitive person and you commit yourself to something, you have no choice but to endure.
  —Vince Burgio

• Aces are larger than life and greater than mountains.
  —Mike Caro

• Avoid people with gold teeth who want to play cards.
  —George Carlin

• It is easy to smile at an insult and pretend it's funny when the person insulting you is hosing you with money.
  —Alfred Alvarez

• 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

• Bad beats only happen to good players.
  —Joe Crow

• If it were easy, everyone would do it.
  —Bonnie Damiano

• The next best thing to gambling and winning is gambling and losing.
  —Nick "The Greek" Dandalos

• Life is too long to play bad cards.
  —Frank Di Elsi

• It's unlucky to be superstitious.
  —Dave Enteles, Card Player

• Is that the game where one receives five cards? And if there's two alike that's pretty good, but if there's three alike, that's much better?
  —W C Fields

• Serious poker is no more about gambling than rock climbing is about taking risks.
  —Alfred Alvarez

• Sir, I really like poker. Every hand has its different problems.
  —Henry Fonda, playing Wyatt Earp in My Darling Clementine

• The single greatest key to winning is knowing thy enemy — yourself.
  —Andy Glazer

• I never saw a poker player’s money that I did not like.
  —Oklahoma Johnny Hale

• Play like a champ. Win like a champ. Act like a champ
  —Frank Henderson

• The winner is not the player who wins the most pots. The winner is the player who wins the most money.
  —Anthony Holden, author of Big Deal

• Egotism is the anesthetic provided by nature to dull the pain of being a damn fool.
  —Chuck Humphrey

• It's morally wrong to let a sucker keep money.
  —Canada Bill Jones

• Forget about a chip and a chair; give me a hand and I’ll stand.
  —Warren Karp

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

• If the shoe fits, steal it.
  —Lou Krieger

• Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.
  —Charles Lamb (1832)

• 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

• To be a poker champion, you must have a strong bladder.
  —Jack McClelland

• There is more to poker than life.
  —Tom McEvoy

• Everybody blows their first money.
  —Lorne Michaels

• Gambling, the sure way of getting nothing for something.
  —Wilson Mizner, Con man and promoter

• Hold'em is to to stud and draw what chess is to checkers.
  —Johnny Moss, 3x World Champion

• Losing is like smoking. It's habit forming.
  —Puggy Pearson, 1973 WSOP winner

• If you can't spot the sucker in the first half an hour at the table, then you are the sucker.
  —Rounders, the movie

• When we play, we must realize, before anything else, that we are out to make money.
  —David Sklansky on Poker

• Fear is the basis of all mankind. In cards, you psyche 'em out, you shark 'em, you put the fear of God in 'em.
  —Puggy Pearson, 1973 WSOP winner

• In the poker game of life, women are the rake.
  —Les Murphy, Rounders

• Most of the money you'll win at poker comes not from the brilliance of your own play, but from the ineptitude of your opponents.
  —Lou Krieger