"Anybody can win, unless there happens to be a second entry."-George Ade

“I think one of the interesting things about poker is that once you let your ego in, you're done for.” - Al Alvarez

"If, after the first twenty minutes, you don't know who the sucker at the table is, it's you." – Anonymous

"In the case of an earthquake hitting Las Vegas, be sure to go straight to the keno lounge. Nothing ever gets hit there." -An anonymous casino boss

”I've often thought, if I got really hungry for a good milk shake, how much would I pay for one? People will pay a hundred dollars for a bottle of wine; to me that's not worth it. But I'm not going to say it is foolish or wrong to spend that kind of money, if that's what you want. So if a guy wants to bet twenty or thirty thousand dollars in a poker game that is his privilege.” Jack Binion

Good luck needs no explanation. - Shirley Temple Black

The champion makes his own luck. - Red Blaik

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

Luck is not a factor. - Lindsay Brigman The Abyss (1989)

“People today who play in all the big fancy (legal) card rooms don't understand what it was like back in those days to be a poker player with all the problems we had” - Doyle Brunson

“I mean there are usually no direct answers to how do you play such-and- such a hand when somebody raises in front. Every poker situation is different. The only way you can learn is to play” - Doyle Brunson

“Ninety percent of the hands aren't shown in a poker game” Doyle Brunson

"Gambling is a principle inherent in human nature." -Edmund Burke, in a speech before the House of Commons (1780)

I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people, being always excited; women, wine, fame, the table, even ambition, sate now and then, but every turn of the card and cast of the dice keeps the gambler alive -- besides one can game ten times longer than one can do any thing else. - Lord Byron.

"The most difficult aspects of playing poker professionally are coping emotionally with the losses and coping with the recurring idea that you're not doing anything worthwhile." - Mike Caro

Aces are larger than life and greater than mountains – Mike Caro

"I believe in luck. How else can you explain the success of those you dislike?" -Jean Cocteau

All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck -- who keeps right on going -- is the man who is there when the good luck comes -- and is ready to receive it. – Robert Collier

"It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck." - Joseph Conrad

Just as outlawing alcohol did not work in the 1920s, current attempts to prohibit online gambling will not work, either. - John Conyers

"I've lost money so fast in these clubs it's left me reeling. I've read every poker book ever written, but the only way to get better at the game is to go out and play with people who are really good. The problem is, you stand to lose a lot of money doing it." Matt Damon, who was quickly eliminated from the $10,000 main event at the WSOP in 1998.

“As for poker, I've stayed away from that, even though when I was in Vegas for Ocean's Eleven, I would get accosted by these guys begging me to play. They just want to take my money. They see me, think "actor" and see some easy money” - Matt Damon

Luck is not chance - It's Toil - Fortune's expensive smile - Is earned. – Emily Dickinson

"My advice to the unborn is, don't be born with a gambling instinct unless you have a good sense of probabilities." Jack Dreyfus of Dreyfus Mutual Fund

Do you feel lucky? - Clint Eastwood

"You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it." -Albert Einstein

God does not play dice with the universe. - Albert Einstein

"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect." -Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When I played pool I was like a good psychiatrist. I cured 'em of all their daydreams and delusions. -Minnesota Fats

"Guessing has never been widely acclaimed as a good gambling strategy." -Dr. G

"Whether he likes it or not, a man's character is stripped bare 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

"The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket." - Kin Hubbard

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. - President Thomas Jefferson

"Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one." -Pope John XXIII

"The guy who invented poker was bright, but the guy who invented the chip was a genius." - Big Julie

”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

"If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky?" -Stanislaw J. Lec

"Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing from something."-Wilson Mizner

"A dollar won is twice as sweet as a dollar earned." -Paul Newman, The Color of Money

"Casinos and prostitutes have the same thing in common; they are both trying to screw you out of your money and send you home with a smile on you face." -VP Pappy

"If you ain't just a little scared when you enter a casino, you are either very rich or you haven't studied the games enough." VP Pappy

Show me a wealthy gambler and I'll show you someone who has made his money from something other than gambling.- VP Pappy

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered. - William Shakespeare