You can shear a sheep many times, but you can skin it only once.
Amarillo Slim
If you’re playing a poker game and you look around the table and can’t tell who the sucker is, it’s you.
Paul Newman
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
The strong point in poker is never to lose your temper, either with those you are playing with or, more particularly, with the cards. There is no sympathy in poker. Always keep cool. If you lose your head you will lose all your chips.
From The Gentleman’s Handbook on Poker by
William J. Florence
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
The beautiful thing about poker is, that everybody thinks they can play.
Chris Moneymaker
Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn’t be avoided. It should be faced.
Edward Norton
The commonest mistake in history is underestimating your opponent; it happens at the poker table all the time.
David M. Shoup
Comedy isn’t necessarily all dialogue. Think of Buster Keaton: the poker face and all this chaos going on all around him. Sometimes it’s a question of timing, of the proper rhythm.
Clint Eastwood
You can’t let it get you down when somebody knocks you out of a tournament playing a hand they shouldn’t have played. Without these types of players, nobody would win any amount of money, so sometimes you just have to take your medicine.
T.J. Cloutier