10 Random Poker Quotes

• Nobody would play the game if the best hand always won. -Will Schwarz
• Dan: I got the ace too, but I have nothing to kick you with. Ian: Well, you could always take your shoe off.
• No Limit Hold'em - Hours of boredom followed by moments of sheer terror.
• "Oh give me a break, Ace-eight! I guess some people like getting their money in as a 3-to-1 underdog." -Phil Hellmuth, at the 2004 WSOP
• "The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent." -- David Mamet
• If there was no luck involved I'd win every time. - Phil Hellmuth
• If you can't quit the best hand, you can't play.
• Poker is like petting a cat, you need some hands.
• Asked why he played in a game known to be crooked, a player replied, "But it's the only game in town."
• "That's the best I ever misread a hand." Unknown NL holdem tourney player at Taj Mahal, December 2003, after going all in on the flop, mistakenly believing he had a flush, but rivering a flush anyway