Poker Quotes and Sayings

Below, we have compiled a list of both famous and obscure poker quotations to help you impress your friends at the home game. For your convenience, we have organized the quotes into categories.

"In a game of poker, I can put the players' souls in my pocket" - Beausourire

"Play like a champ. Win like a champ. Act like a champ" - Frank Henderson

"He said, "Son, I've made a life out of readin' people's faces, and knowin' what their cards were by the way they held their eyes."" - Kenny Rogers, "The Gambler"

"It's not whether you won or lost, but how many bad-beat stories you were able to tell" - Grantland Rice

"Once I accepted the fact my career in sports was over, I started playing poker to support myself" - Doyle Brunson

"Poker is a godless game, full of random pain" - Andy Bloch

"Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you criticize him, you will be a mile away, and you will have his shoes" - Chuck Humphrey

"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