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

"The most difficult aspects of playing poker professionally are coping emotionally with the losses and coping with the recurring idea that you're not doing anything worthwhile."Mike Caro

"Hold em is to stud what chess is to checkers."
Johnny Moss

"The guy who invented poker was bright, but the guy who invented the chip was a genius."
Big Julie

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

"Whether he likes it or not, a man's character is stripped bare at the poker table; if the other players read him better than he does, he has only himself to blame. Unless he is both able and prepared to see himself as others do, flaws and all, he will be a loser in cards, as in life."
Anthony Holden

"Cards are war, in disguise of a sport."
Charles Lamb, "Essays of Elia" (1832)

"You call...gonna be all over, baby." during the 1998 World Series of Poker. Down to the final 2 players, he said this to his opponent while he held the best possible hand.
Scotty Nguyen

"Remember this: The house doesn't beat the player. It just gives him the opportunity to beat himself."
Nicholas 'Nick the Greek' Dandalos

"A racehorse is an animal that can take several thousand people for a ride at the same time."
Author Unknown

"Luck never gives; it only lends."
Wedish Proverb

"When I played pool I was like a good psychiatrist. I cured 'em of all their daydreams and delusions."
Minnesota Fats

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

"Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing from something."
Wilson Mizner