Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Money won is twice as sweet as money earned. - from The Color of Money

If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. - Chinese Proverb

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

No matter how much you may want to think of Holdem as a card game played by people, in many respects it is even more valid to think of it as a game about people that happens to be played with cards. - Phil Hellmuth