To start with you had to keep from getting arrested by the police. Then, you had to keep from getting cheated in the games. You also had to worry about collecting the money if you won. Then finally, after all that was said and done - you had to keep from getting hijacked.

I still have the mentality of a 19-year-old mind.

Ninety percent of the hands aren't shown in a poker game.

We never talk about gambling around my house.

Show me your eyes and you may as well show me your cards.

When I was coming up through the ranks, not that many people carried a lot money of money on them. This was before checks and credit cards.

What took me decades to learn, these kids can get on the Internet...What I learned by brute force, dealing out hands, they learn on computers. It tends to make for fairly technical players, but they make up for it with aggression, the kind that comes when you learn things fast.

Everyone gets lucky once in a while, but no one is consistently lucky.

I can't believe how much money I lose betting on sports. "sucker born every minute". That's me!

The thought of money and fame and all that is nice to have. But it's not what's really important.

Try to decide how good your hand is at a given moment. Nothing else matters. Nothing.

Saw that I could make more money in one pot than what was in that entire paycheck selling a week of office supplies

I once went a whole summer without seeing the sun. I would play all night, then sleep all day.

I still have the mentality of a 19-year-old mind.

I now see what the really important things in life are and they don't relate to what I do for a living.

So, if I had a mentor, it was Johnny Moss.

It's not the cards that you have all the time that makes you a winner or a loser.

Everyone gets lucky once in a while, but no one is consistently lucky.