"Poker is not about life and death. It's much more serious than that."

“Sometimes when I play poker, I get the feeling that everyone’s against me.”

"What fun would poker or life be if we never took a calculated chance and tried to win?"

"Poker is just a game of condiments. You have to lay off the sauce and quit playing ketchup, or you won't cut the mustard."

"In poker, it's not what cards you have, but what cards you pretend to have."

"If poker is war, then Texas Hold'em is nuclear war."

"If you are a fish, keep your mouth shut. It's much harder to get caught that way."

"Raising does not guarantee winning, but there is no winning without raising."

--Terrence "VP Pappy" Murphy (New book coming out next year? Hopefully.)