Amarillo Slim quotes
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“I never go looking for a sucker. I look for a Champion and make a sucker of of him.”
-- Amarillo SlimSource : Amarillo Slim Preston, Greg Dinkin (2013). “Amarillo Slim in a World Full of Fat People: The Memoirs of the Greatest Gambler Who Ever Lived”, p.1, Harper Collins
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“My favorite chip trick is to make everyone's chip stack disappear.”
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“You can shear a sheep a hundred times, but you can skin it only once.”
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“It never hurts for potential opponents to think you're more than a little stupid and can hardly count all the money in your hip pocket, much less hold on to it.”
-- Amarillo SlimSource : Amarillo Slim Preston, Greg Dinkin (2013). “Amarillo Slim in a World Full of Fat People: The Memoirs of the Greatest Gambler Who Ever Lived”, p.21, Harper Collins
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“Look around the table. If you don't see a sucker, get up, because you're the sucker.”
-- Amarillo SlimSource : "Amarillo Slim obituary" by Michael Carlson, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2012.
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“I don't believe in hunches. Hunches are for dogs making love.”
-- Amarillo SlimSource : Amarillo Slim Preston, Bill G. Cox (1973). “Play poker to win”, Not Avail
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“Sometimes the lambs slaughter the butcher.”
-- Amarillo SlimSource : Amarillo Slim Preston, Bill G. Cox (1973). “Play poker to win”, Not Avail
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“I dont play any two suited cards. I play any two non-suited cards. That way I am drawing at two different flushes.”
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“If you are going to bluff, make it a big one.”
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“The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.”
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Source : Alfred Korzybski (1958). “Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics”, p.697, Institute of GS
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“Dice have their laws, which the courts of justice cannot undo.”
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Source : Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.133, University of Georgia Press
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“If I wasn't a champion, I'd still be in jail. That makes me try very hard.”
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“Behind every champion is a team that prepared him to become that champion.”
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