"I never go looking for a sucker. I look for a Champion and make a sucker of of him." - "Amrillo" Slim Preston

"Poker is alot like sex, everone thinks they are the best, but most don't have a clue what they are doing!" - Dutch Boy'd

"It is easy to smile at an insult and pretend it's funny when the person insulting you is hosing you with money." - Alfred Alvarez

"Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression: If you cards are good enough for your to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with." - Alfred Alvarez

"Show me a good loser and I'll show you a loser." - Stu Ungar

"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 Ungar

"If you reraise a raiser, and he doesn't raise you back, you know he has kicker problems." - Crandall Addington

"Sometimes you'll miss a bet, sure, but it's OK to miss a bet. Poker is an art form, of course, but sometimes you have to sacrifice art in favour of making a profit." - Mike Caro

"Poker is a microcosm of all we admire and disdain about capitalism and democracy. Poker can be rough-hewn or polished, warm or cold, charitable and caring, or hard and impersonal, fickle and elusive, but ultimately poker is fair, and right, and just." - Lou Krieger

"You have to learn what kind of hand this guy shows down, what that one's moves, watch the veins in his neck, watch his eyes, the way he sweats." - Johnny Moss

"One day a chump, the next day a champion. What a difference a day makes in tournament poker." - Mike Sexton

"Try to decide how good your hand is at a given moment. Nothing else matters. Nothing!" - Doyle Bunson

"Aces are larger than life and greater than mountains." - Mike Caro

"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." - Lou Krieger

"Hold em is to stud what chess is to checkers." - Johnny Moss

"Look around the table. If you don't see a sucker, get up, because you're the sucker." - Amarillo Slim

"You can shear a sheep a hundred times, but you can skin it only once." - Amarillo Slim

"It's immoral to let a sucker keep his money." - Canada Bill Jones

"See, in my world - the world of high-stakes gin and poker - we play for cold, hard cash. It's all business, pure and simple. Anyone who thinks cardplaying is a 'game' - I'll show you a loser. Money... M-O-N-E-Y. That's how you measure success. One dollar at a time. One chip at a time. That's how you keep score." - Stu Unger

"Forget about a chip and a chair; give me a hand and I’ll stand." - Warren Karp

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

"They anticipate losing when they sit down and I try my darnedest not to disappoint one of them." - Amarillo Slim

"Serious poker is no more about gambling than rock climbing is about taking risks." - Alfred Alvarez

"The two things you need to be successful in poker are, first, find the muck, and second, don’t play your own money." - David "Devilfish" Ulliott

"Whether he likes it or not, a man's character is stripped 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." - Anthony Holden

"Trust everyone, but always cut the cards." - Benny Binion

"In the long run there's no luck in poker, but the short run is longer than most people know." - Rick Bennet

"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." - Crandall Addington

"Omaha is a game that was invented by a Sadist and is played by Masochists." - Shane Smith

"The next best thing to gambling and winning is gambling and losing." - Nick "The Greek" Dandalos

"When a man with money meets a man with experience, the man with experience leaves with money and the man with money leaves with experience." - Anonymous