My favorite Poker Quotes

Almost everyone has their favorite quotes from exceptional movies. But putting movies aside and moving on with Poker, do you have any favorite quotations from established Poker players? Do not use google and search Poker quotations just so you can say you have a favorite. It will be pointless. Poker quotations can be found when you observe a lot every game or interviews of the greatest Poker players. Poker Reviews can only do so much in writing articles about Online Poker or Poker Rooms. What really matters is the things these greatest players say or do when they are in Poker Tournaments.

Just take a look at these quotes i have collected from several Poker enthusiasts and Poker's greatest players.

“Poker is generally reckoned to be America’s second most popular after-dark activity. Sex is good, they say, but Poker lasts longer.”
- Alfred Alvarez

“I never go looking for a sucker. I look for a Champion and make a sucker off of him.”
- Amarillo Slim

“Poker is a game of people… It’s not the hand I hold, it’s the people that I play with.”
- Amarillo Slim

“In the absence of any mathematical explanation, one thing is for certain; if you engage in games of chance long enough, the experience is bound to affect the way you see God. Successfully draw to an inside straight three hands in a row, and you’ve got to be blessed. But if you’re the person drawn out on, the one whose trip aces just got snapped for the third time, you will go home feeling cursed.”
- Andy Bellin

“If you know Poker, you know people; and if you know people, you got the whole dang world lined up in your sights.”
- Brett Maverick

“Poker reveals to the frank observer something else of importance”it will teach him about his own nature. Many bad players do not improve because the cannot bear self-knowledge.”
- David Mamet

“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

“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.”
- William J. Florence

“There are few things that are so unpardonably neglected in our country as Poker. The upper class knows very little about Poker. Now and then you find ambassadors who have sort of a general knowledge of Poker, 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

And last, but not the least:

“There is more to Poker than life.”
- Tom McEvoy

Though i really like the last quote, i do not agree with it. So there. I think Poker just comes second to life.