Favorite Poker Quotes

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“Every poker player, like every fisherman, needs to have a story in a box, and most poker stories are completely uninteresting.” -- Jason Alexander
 
"There were several hundred people playing there and, believe me, I saw only two who knew how to play the game." -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
 
"You can’t bluff someone who’s not paying attention." -- David Mamet
 
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"Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough." -- Mark Twain
 
"Your birthday is a lot like low stakes poker; people keep calling you and it's supposed to be a good thing but it ends up being annoying." -- Phil Galfond
 
"I’ve gotten broke more times playing the bottom two pair than with any other hand playing Hold 'em." -- Doyle Brunson
 
"If you want to be successful in business, surround yourself with smart people. If you want to be successful in poker, surround yourself with idiots." -- Abdul Jalib
 
"Jim, I recommend you give up drinking, cut out poker, stop staying up late, and, especially, quit running around with women." -- Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy (Star Trek)
 
"Nothing belongs on a poker table but cards, chips and whiskey." -- Tennessee Williams
 
"Bad beats are a really bad mental habit. You don’t want to ever dwell on them. It doesn’t help you become a better player. It’s like dumping your garbage on someone else’s lawn. It just stinks." -- Erik Seidel
 
"I have made myself a promise. I have promised that I will try to win this tournament instead of just showing up and throwing off my chips. I have decided that if I'm going to put in the hours to play this tournament, I'm going to try to win it." -- Doyle Brunson
 
"You’d put in everything, your wife, your parrot, to prevent him from drawing, you make it too expensive. . . . You know you have the best hand as things stand. You bet all your money." -- Michael Ondaatje
 
"Poker is not about having good cards, but about playing the ones you have well."
 
"The true logic of the universe is the calculus of probabilities." -- James Clerk Maxwell
 
"Pushing up the ante, I know you've got to see me, Read 'em and weep, the dead man's hand again." -- Motörhead
 
"You wanna learn about a person, it costs you. And the more you learn, the more it costs." -- David Goodis
 
"Simple pleasures. Music and dance, wine, ale, dice and cards." -- Guy Gavriel Kay
 
"There is an unwritten rule among regulars that obvious live ones, wealthy losers, and cardroom strangers should never be criticized publicly or made to feel bad about their poor play and the extent of their losses." -- David Hayan
 
"To him it didn’t matter if he was playing no limit or penny ante. He still liked to make the right percentage play. It was a matter of pride." -- Dick Miles
 
"A man can find out a lot about himself, playing poker. Is he brave? Is he cool? Does he have any money left?" -- Martin Amis
 
"When a man’s eyes are so dim that he can’t see a straight flush when it’s dealt him he has no business to play poker." -- W. Somerset Maugham
 
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