So I've just started up again after a burnout break and I suffered a shockingly bad session yesterday. I've had a steady day at work so I decided to write down a few phrases to print off and stick up on my wall. Pretty gay yes but whatever floats your boat and all that. Most of these I heard somewhere else and just rewrote. Would love to hear lots more, I want a wall full of the best ones.
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One great session does not make you a great player. One terrible session does not make you a terrible player. Poker requires a long-term mindset and a mentality capable of keeping perspective during extraordinary times.


LAG-tards and fish get the same amount of good hands as sharks and nits.


Recognise the onset of TILT and step away from the tables. The games will always be there but you need your BANKROLL to play them.


Even great players suffer crushing defeats. It is the manner in which they respond to those losses that defines their greatness.


"Satisfaction? I don't think you ever get satisfaction because you are always worried about the next game and the next step. I have never thought that it has been a remarkable achievment because I am still doing it, still trying to push on."
Tony Pulis

I don't look for a chump, I look for a champion and make a chump of him

I never look at what has been done, only what is to be done

do or do not there is no try

reality is wrong, dreams are for real

'insert quote from any self made millionaire/billionaire/leader'

yoda, 2pac, ammarilo slim, budda, quite funny mix of character, but all have the same thing in common

"I don't get ready, I stay ready."
Will Smith said this on BBC Radio 1 if I recall.

"I never look at what has been done, only what is to be done"

"do or do not there is no try"


I like these ones a lot.

"No matter who you are and no matter who they are, you can always beat them by outworking them"

"I run on the road, long before I dance under the lights" Mohammad Ali

"When I went to the Ultimate Fighter, my plan A was to become a UFC fighter; my plan B was to go back to Georgia and work as a cop again; my plan C was to become a UFC fighter" Forrest Griffin - former UFC champion on the importance of not giving up on your dream

money doesn't make happy but happy makes money -- Russell Simmons

whether you think you can or you can't, either way you are right

i was an atheist until i realized that i am god

good givers are good getters -- Russell Simmons

do your best and forget the rest -- Rev Run

happiness doesn't diminish when shared

as a man thinks in his heart, so is he -- Proverbs 23:7

the whole universe exists within you, ask all from yourself -- Rumi

Today is the first day of the rest of your life, the question that you have to ask yourself is, is it going to be a life of fear? - Breaking Bad

Rehab is for quitters

I'm just gonna play how I'm feeling and what I think is right is what I'm gonna do - Phil Ivey

Failure is the precursor to success

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I gave up the struggle, and instead of falling apart -- things got better.

"I run on the road, long before I dance under the lights" Mohammad Ali

whether you think you can or you can't, either way you are right

Failure is the precursor to success


These are all going on the wall.

Stand up. Shake it off. Keep going.

A professional doesn't quit until the job is done.

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Robert Collier

When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going

when life throws me lemons ...i make mother fu***g lemonade

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Robert Collier

The commonest mistake in history is underestimating your opponent; it happens at the poker table all the time. ~David Shoup

Poker's a day to learn and a lifetime to master. ~Robert Williamson III

Whether he likes it or not, a man’s character is stripped at the poker table; if the other players read him better than he does, he has only himself to blame. Unless he is both able and prepared to see himself as others do, flaws and all, he will be a loser in cards, as in life. ~Anthony Holden

You have it in your power to turn a bad-beat around simply by realizing this simple truth: The more bad beats you encounter, the luckier you are. It's a sign that you are playing against opponents who continually take the worst of it, and if you can't beat someone who always takes the worst of it, you can't beat anyone. ~Lou Krieger
Most of the money you'll win at poker comes not from the brilliance of your own play, but from the ineptitude of your opponents. ~Lou Krieger

Limit poker is a science, but no-limit is an art. In limit you are shooting at a target. In no-limit, the target comes alive and shoots back at you.

-- Crandall Addington, Texas oil millionaire

When a man with money meets a man with experience, the man with experience leaves with money and the man with money leaves with experience.

Playing poker for a living gives you backbone. You cannot survive without that intangible quality we call heart.

-- Bobby Baldwin, 1978 WSOP winner (2001)

Once you start thinking you have nothing left to learn, you have everything to learn.

-- Steve Badget

The single greatest key to winning is knowing thy enemy — yourself.

-- Andy Glazer

Poker is the only game for a grown man. Then, your hand is against every man's, and evern man's hand is against yours. Teamwork? Who ever made a fortune by teamwork?

-- Somerset Maugham

Show me a good loser and I'll show you a loser.

-- Stu Ungar

It's hard work. Gambling. Playing poker. Don't let anyone tell you different. Think about what it's like sitting at a poker table with people whose only goal is to cut your throat, take your money, and leave you out back talking to yourself about what went wrong inside.

-- Stu Unger, Three-time WSOP Champion



A card player should learn that once the money is in the pot, it isn't his any longer.

-- Herbert Yardley (1957)

This is my favorite one it was by a poker player on this forum

"everybody will eventually run worse than they thought was possible. The difference between a winner and a loser is the latter thinks he doesn't deserve it".

"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary" - Vince Lombardi

"Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down." Lance Armstrong

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOBIq0R4iQY

“Whether he likes it or not, a man’s character is stripped bare at the poker table; if the other players read him better than he does, he has only himself to blame. Unless he is both able and prepared to see himself as others do, flaws and all, he will be a loser in cards, as in life.”

" For want of a nail the shoe was lost. For want of a shoe the horse was lost. For want of a horse the rider was lost. For want of a rider the battle was lost. For want of a battle the KINGDOM was lost. And all for the want for a horseshoe nail. "

Friend of mine gave me link of this vid... It's clip from movie, Any Given Sunday.

quotes in here

"Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place and I don't care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life.

But it ain't about how hard ya hit. It's about how hard you can get it and keep moving forward. How much you can take, and keep moving forward."

Friedrich Nietschke

That which does not kill you ...makes you stronger.

Become who you are - Nietzsche (I don't know how to spell it either)

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems - Descartes (God of philosophy imo).

Man’s highest joy is in victory. To conquer one’s enemies; to pursue them; to deprive them of their possessions; to make their beloved weep; to ride on their horses; and to embrace their wives and daughters."
- Genghis Khan

I have a life moto and all but I try to stay away from "inspirational quotes", although there are some cool Einstein quotes that I like.

Like this one for example:

Mike Mcdermott on BRM

"If you're too careful your whole life can become a fcukin grind"

"Luck is when preparation meets opportunity"