Whats your fav poker quote?

We all have our favourite Poker Pro, and they all have their own fair share of wisdom.
Even the poker pros have pros they look up too.
I know there is heaps of Poker Quotes around..
But i wanna know ...
What is the BEST Poker quote you have heard that you live and play by??? And who spoke those words of wisdom,...
I like....
"Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died."
Steven Wright

and

The cardinal sin in poker, worse than playing did cards, worse even than figuring your odds correctly, is becoming emotionally involved.
Katy Lederer

So whats yours? and whos it by?

"Really, if there’s one thing I’ve learned without question about poker, it’s that poker screws with people’s brains and drives them batshit." - Ed Miller

"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."
Stu Unger, three-time WSOP Champion

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

I dont know if anyone else has said it, but I say it a lot,
"It's not about what cards you hold, it's about what cards your opponent thinks you hold"

Liked this one too.

"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."
Mark Twain

You have it in your power to turn a bad beat around simply by realizing this simple truth: The more bad beats you encounter, the luckier you are. It's a sign that you are playing against opponents who continually take the worst of it, and if you can't beat someone who always takes the worst of it, you can't beat anyone. by Lou Krieger

I try protect your hand.

Dont suck

I like these two the best..."If, after the first twenty minutes, you don't know who the sucker at the table is, it's you." -author unknown

You have it in your power to turn a bad-beat around simply by realizing this simple truth: The more bad beats you encounter, the luckier you are. It's a sign that you are playing against opponents who continually take the worst of it, and if you can't beat someone who always takes the worst of it, you can't beat anyone. ~Lou Krieger

"pokah is nice. i love play pokah" - chau giang

"Maximize your wins minimize your losses"

Don't know who said it but this sums up poker IMO.

There are 3 ways to play pocket Jacks--ALL OF THEM WRONG!--Every body Here

What? No one has quoted Kenny Rogers yet?

"Know when to hold 'em--Know when to fold 'em--Know when to walk away and know when to run." -from "The Gambler"

Then again, there are so many more cheesy lines in this song, I could go on with this forever, lol.

My favorite by the great Doyle Brunson "Were playing poker not solitaire."

The guy who invented poker was bright, but the guy who invented the chip was a genius. ~Author Unknown

"Poker is a lot like sex: you gotta attack the blind."

My favourite.

You lead a horse to water, but a donkey will follow you all the way to the river..


Followed by that Hellmuthian classic

You cant even spell poker let alone play it.

One I heard in a live game once.

A player had just been the victim of a real bad beat. I mean AA v 7 3 kind of bad beat.

He was grumbling like hell about it and this young lad just looked at him and said

"quit moaning and just do what Monica Lewinsky did"

The bloke looked at him and asked him what he meant..

"take it in the chin"

"If luck weren't involved, I'd guess I'd win every one" Phil Hellmuth and also another one by him "Argh, this IDIOT!!"

nobody is always a winner, and anybody who says he is, is either a liar or doesn't play poker.----Amoarillo Slim
they anticipate losing when they sit down and i try my darnedest not to disappoint one of them. --Amariilo Slim
trust everyone, but always cut the cards. --Benny Binion
and the best that i read is:
when a man with money meets a man whith experience, the man with experience leaves with money and the man with money leaves with experience.----Anonymous
this was very interesting and fun thanks for thinking it up.

"If you're not bored, you're not playing right."

"A fool and his money are soon parted."


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i have a couple favorite poker quotes............Mike sexton "May all your cards be live and your pots be monsters".........and to quote the always entertaining Mike "the mouth" matusow..........."The kiddie games down the street boys"............NOW THATS CLASSIC!!!!!!

nobody is always a winner, and anybody who says he is, is either a liar or doesn't play poker..

lmao @ some of these.

"all you need is a chip and a chair"

-norman chad (WPT commentator)

FROM THE MOVIE CINCINATTI KID 1968. AFTER EDWARD G (LANCEY) MADE A HUGE RERAISE.

Slade: How the hell did you know I didn't have the king or the ace?
Lancey Howard: I recollect a young man putting the same question to Eddie the Dude. "Son," Eddie told him, "all you paid was the looking price. Lessons are extra."

I'm sure someone else has said this but my favorite quote is from someone I can't stand. Phil Helmuth "If it wasn't for luck, I'd win every hand"

If you think his antics are bad on TV wait until you see him in person. I have been witness to his nonsense at Garden City and Bay101 in San Jose on several occasions.

Annie Duke once signed on my shirt:

"Play Good."

Best poker advice I ever received.

"Never give a sucker an even break."

W C Fields

FYI, at Treetop Strauss: Chip and a Chair
:

Yesterday, we covered the alternate story linking Treetop Jack Strauss to the phrase “All you need is a chip and a chair”. Today we look at the mainstream version of the tale, the one that history managed to record successfully.
When Strauss embarked on his World Series career, things looked promising. He was aggressive before aggression was a keyword in every poker player’s vocabulary. His reputation as a strong, unpredictable player intimidated opponents into folding up like so many lawn chairs. He finished second to the great Johnny Moss in his first series in 1971. He was primed to take his seat on the throne.
Unfortunately for Strauss, ’71 was as close as he’d get in that decade. Other, more dedicated players surpassed him as he lived life to the fullest. He couldn’t keep up with the players who spent more time at the table than he did. His WSOP seemed to agree with the sentiment, plummeting downwards through the turn of the decade.
Finally, Strauss broke through in the 1982 Series to take the title, but not before a very close brush with elimination. Strauss was knee-deep in a hand whose details have been forgotten by time, but we do know that at one point he silently moved his stack into the middle of the pot. His opponent called, matching him chip for chip. The cards were turned over and Strauss had lost.
Jack stood up, put on his coat and started collecting himself when he found one last $500 chip underneath his cocktail napkin. The fact he hadn’t actually announced himself all-in meant that he was still alive, surviving on a technicality. By today’s rules, he would have been eliminated, but the ruling stood and Jack survived.
He took off the coat, sat back down, moved all-in on the next hand and won. He moved in again and doubled again. Two days later, he was the only player with chips, as a ten on the river helped his A-10 beat Dewey Tomko’s A-4 to win the title. We’ll go into more detail on that tomorrow.

"I can dodge bullets baby!" ~ Phill Hellmuth
"1 Time" ~Joe Hachem
"1 More time" ~ Phill laak

I believe it was Stu Ungar who said (correct me if Im wrong):
"Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser."

-why do all the pushing, when you can let the donkey do all the pulling.

-poker is a lot like sex, people think they know what they are doing, but they have no idea