Quotes and Sayings about Poker

 

 

"Yes, I think poker really isn't gambling."
- Al Alvarez
(Related: Gambling, Poker)

"I think one of the interesting things about poker is that once you let your ego in, you're done for."
- Al Alvarez
(Related: Ego, Poker)

"What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels."
- Saint Augustine
(Related: Anger, Love, Fear, Jealousy, Quarrels)

"People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker."
- Mary Austin
(Related: People, Poker, Prayer)

"I completely take on the risk, the poker game, which being an artist means, and I'm going to try to make a film which honestly reflects what I have in my head."
- Antonio Banderas
(Related: Artist, Being, Film, Poker, Risk)

"Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people."
- Samantha Bee
(Related: People, Being, Poker)

"The best part about poker is there's no down side."
- Samantha Bee
(Related: Poker)

"What I know about poker, you can fit into a thimble with room left over, but I'm learning."
- Wilford Brimley
(Related: Learning, Poker)

"No, that's poker. To win, you've gotta get damned lucky."
- Wilford Brimley
(Related: Poker)

"Ninety percent of the hands aren't shown in a poker game."
- Doyle Brunson
(Related: Poker)

"If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability."
- Vannevar Bush
(Related: Arithmetic, Mathematics, Poker, Understanding, World)

"When I play poker, I don't like losing the pot."
- Drew Carey
(Related: Losing, Play, Poker)

"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
(Related: Money, Ocean, Play, Poker, Want)

"I am very driven. I work really hard, whether it's acting or my charity or even poker. When I focus on something I give it my all."
- Shannon Elizabeth
(Related: Work, Acting, Charity, Focus, Poker)

"The only things I'm competitive in are backgammon and poker."
- Kate Hudson
(Related: Poker)

"Air power is like poker. A second-best hand is like none at all - it will cost you dough and win you nothing."
- George Kenney
(Related: Power, Nothing, Poker, Will)

"If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you."
- Paul Newman
(Related: Poker)

"Being able to pit your wits against literally hundreds of other people is really exciting and ultimately the biggest single challenge for a poker player."
- Tim Page
(Related: People, Being, Challenge, Poker)

"Initial feedback we got from people was that Poker could and should be a product in its own right. For us, that was definitely a case of us not seeing the forest for the trees since we are Poker nuts."
- Tim Page
(Related: People, Poker, Right, Trees)

"Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead."
- Jackie Robinson
(Related: Baseball, Losing, Poker)

"Living in the past is a Jethro Tull album, not a smart poker strategy."
- Richard Roeper
(Related: Strategy, Living, Past, Poker)

"I've been playing Texas Hold 'em and other forms of poker since I was about 12."
- Richard Roeper
(Related: Poker)

"You're not allowed to give yourself a nickname. This holds true in life as well as in poker."
- Richard Roeper
(Related: Life, Poker)

"I can never have a poker face. Anybody looking at me can tell exactly what I'm thinking."
- Gena Rowlands
(Related: Poker, Thinking)

"My kitty cats could rely on my poker winnings."
- Nicole Sullivan
(Related: Cats, Poker)

"I'm absolutely gonna win it, because I'm ruthless. I sit at the poker table and my job is to destroy people."
- James Woods
(Related: People, Job, Poker)

"Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died."
- Steven Wright
(Related: People, Cards, Night, Poker)