10 Random Poker Quotes

• The worst hand to have is the second best hand.
• "I raise, therefore I am." - Howard Lederer
• "So again, do not raise in No Limit Hold'em -- especially tournaments -- if there is a reasonable chance that a reraise will make you throw up." -- David Sklansky (Tournament Poker for Advanced Players)
• Any two cards can lose... and they usually do.
• "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
• God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffible game of his own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time. --Gaiman and Pratchett's "Good Omens"
• "I thought it was jack's" - Phil Helmuth Jr. WSOP vs. Jason Lester
• "Never go broke in an unraised pot" -T.J. Cloutier
• A great poker player knows when he is playing poorly.
• Nobody would play the game if the best hand always won. -Will Schwarz