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Message: [QUOTE="steveiam, post: 2076211, member: 93605"] Came across some poker quotes of which some are really good. Perhaps we can add some more ? [B]Mary Austin: [/B]“People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker.” [B]Rick Bennet[/B]: “In the long run there’s no luck in poker, but the short run is longer than most people know.” [B]Benny Binion: [/B]“Trust everyone, but always cut the cards.” [B]Dutch Boyd: [/B]“Poker is a lot like sex, everyone thinks they are the best, but most don’t have a clue what they are doing!” [B]Doyle Brunson[/B]: “May the flop be with you.” [B]Mike Caro[/B]: ”Aces are larger than life and greater than mountains.” [B]Sammy Farha[/B]: “Just play every hand, you can’t miss them all.” [B]Michael Gersitz[/B]: “Don’t get mad that you lost, get mad because you didn’t win.” [B]Phil Hellmuth[/B]: “No matter how much you may want to think of Holdém as a card game played by people, in many respects it is even more valid to think of it as a game about people that happens to be played with cards.” [B]Anthony Holden[/B]: “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.” [B]Warren Karp[/B]: “Forget about a chip and a chair; give me a hand and I’ll stand.” [B]Lou Krieger[/B]: “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.” [B]Charles Lamb[/B]: “Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.” [B]Joe Laurie Jr[/B].: “If you play bridge badly you make your partner suffer, but if you play poker badly you make everybody happy.” [B]Katy Lederer[/B]: “The cardinal sin in poker, worse than playing did cards, worse even than figuring your odds incorrectly, is becoming emotionally involved.” [B]Steve Lipscomb[/B]: “Poker is to cards and games what jazz is to music. It’s this great American thing, born and bred here. We dig it because everybody can play.” [B]W. Somerset Maugham[/B]: “Poker’s the only game fit for a grown man. Then, your hand is against every man’s, and every man’s is against yours.” [B]Jesse May[/B]: “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.” [B]Jack McClelland[/B]: “To be a poker champion, you must have a strong bladder.” [B]Tom McEvoy[/B]: “No-limit hold’em: Hours of boredom followed by moments of sheer terror.” [B]Johnny Moss[/B]: “Hold’em is to stud what chess is to checkers.” [B]Paul Newman[/B]: “A dollar won is twice as sweet as a dollar earned.” [B]Mark Pilarski[/B]: “The smarter you play, the luckier you’ll be.” [B]Mike Sexton[/B]: “The name of the game is no-limit Texas Hold’em, the game that takes a minute to learn but a lifetime to master.” [B]Amarillo Slim[/B]: “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.” [B]Jonathan Swift[/B]: “I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.” [B]Stu Unger[/B]: “Fold and live to fold again.” [B]Julius ‘Big Julie’ Weintraub[/B]: “The guy who invented poker was bright, but the guy who invented the chip was a genius.” [/QUOTE]

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