Poker/Gambling Quotes and Sayings

I use this list to show random quotes on my own site. I collated it from loads of different places
"Hold em is to stud what chess is to checkers.",
"The guy who invented poker was bright, but the guy who invented the chip was a genius.",
"Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.",
"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.",
"Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.",
"You call...gonna be all over, baby.",
"When we play, we must realize, before anything else, that we are out to make money.",
"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.",
"Poker reveals to the frank observer something else of import--it will teach him about his own nature. Many bad players do not improve because the cannot bear self-knowledge.",
"You cannot survive without that intangible quality we call heart. The mark of a top player is not how much he wins when he is winning but how he handles his losses. If you win for thirty days in a row, that makes no difference if on the thirty-first you have a bad night, go crazy, and throw it all away.",
"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.",
"In the absence of any mathematical explanation, one thing is for certain; if you engage in games of chance long enough, the experience is bound to affect the way you see God. Successfully draw to an inside straight three hands in a row, and you've got to be blessed. But if you're the person drawn out on, the one whose trip aces just got snapped for the third time, you will go home feeling cursed.",

"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.",

"The real things to know is that folks will stand to lose more than they will to win. That's the most important percentage there is. I mean, if they lose, they're willin' to lose everything. If they win, they're usually satisfied to win enough to pay for dinner and a show. The best gamblers know that.",
"The cardinal sin in poker, worse than playing did cards, worse even than figuring your odds correctly, is becoming emotionally involved.",
"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..",
"It's hard work. Gambling. Playing poker. Don't let anyone tell you different. Think about what it's like sitting at a poker table with people whose only goal is to cut your throat, take your money, and leave you out back talking to yourself about what went wrong inside. That probably sounds harsh. But that's the way it is at the poker table. If you don't believe me, then you're the lamb that's going off to the slaughter.",
"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.",
"He said, 'Son, I've made a life out of readin' people's faces, and knowin' what their cards were by the way they held their eyes.",
"These two have no idea what they're about to walk into. Down here to have a good time, they figure, Why not give poker a try? After all, how different can it be from the home games they've played their whole lives? Luck. All the luck in the world isn't gonna change things for these guys. They're simply overmatched. We're (the pros at the table) not playing together, but we're not playing against each other, either. It's like the Nature Channel. You don't see piranhas eating each other, do you?",
"There are few things that are so unpardonably neglected in our country as poker. The upper class knows very little about it. Now and then you find ambassadors who have sort of a general knowledge of the game, but the ignorance of the people is fearful. Why, I have known clergymen, good men, kind-hearted, liberal, sincere, and all that, who did not know the meaning of a 'flush'. It is enough to make one ashamed of the species.",
"If, after the first twenty minutes, you don't know who the sucker at the table is, it's you.",
"I never go looking for a sucker. I look for a Champion and make a sucker of of him.",
"If you are a guy, you know you play too much poker if your wet dreams involve 'nuts' instead of breasts.",
"It is better to make people think you are a bad poker player, than to play and remove all doubt. Don't play to impress, play to win.",
"Don't get mad that you lost, get mad because you didn't win.",
"Hold'em - like life itself - has its defining moment. It's the flop. When you see the flop, you're looking at 71 percent of your hand, and the cost is only a single round of betting.",
"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.",
"The next time you get ready to tell a bad beat story, stop and ask yourself why you want to tell a losing story?"