10 Random Poker Quotes

• "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
• "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
• " The commonest mistake in history is underestimating your opponent; happens at the poker table all the time."
• "I had 2 high." -Sammy Farha
• Playing poker for play money is like going to a strip club for the food. -UncleWaldo
• "Not all trappers wear 'coon-skin hats."
• "You get your chips your way, I'll get my chips mine." (Phil Ivey, to Howard Lederer)
• I don't want to be called a good loser. A good loser is still a loser. -Stu Unger
• "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
• when a player asks me for lucky chips, i say they weren't lucky for the person i got them from