Poker: Famous quotes

• Jack Strauss: “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.”

 

• Mike Caro: “Aces are larger than life and greater than mountains.”

 

• Jawaharlal Nehru: “Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; thou the way you play it is free will.”

 

• Jackie Robinson: “Baseball is like a poker in the UK. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.”

 

• Lord Dewar: “No wife can endure a gambling husband unless he is a steady winner.”

 

• Mark Twain: “He had the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.”

 

• Mark Pilarski: “The smarter you play, the luckier you’ll be.”

 

• Ian Fleming Casino Royale (1953): “At gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck.”

 

• Amarillo Slim: “Nobody is always a winner, and anybody who says he is, is either a liar or doesn’t play poker.”

 

• Big Julie: “The guy who invented poker was bright, but the guy who invented the chip was a genius.”

 

• Amarillo Slim: “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.”

 

• William J. Florence: “The strong point in poker is never to lose your temper, either with those you are playing with or, more particularly, with the cards. There is no sympathy in poker. Always keep cool. If you lose your head you will lose all your chips.”

 

• Anthony Holden: “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.”

 

• Paul Auster – The Music of Chance1990: “Let me tell you, there’s no better medicine than a friendly card game for sloughing off the cares of a workaday world.”

 

• A fish on FTP: “My Kings are a coin flip against your Aces.”

 

• Jim Boyd: “I’ve always had confidence, but I never let my ego get to the point that I think I’m the superstar, because I know that ego has destroyed many a poker career.”

 

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