Quotes & Sayings About Amarillo

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 Slim

I never go looking for a sucker. I look for a Champion and make a sucker of of him. — Amarillo Slim

Of all the songs I've recorded, 'Amarillo By Morning' always sticks out in my mind. — George Strait

My most memorable food challenge was probably the Big Texan in Amarillo. All the big executives called me because it was such an iconic challenge, and a victory in that would be a legitimizing device for myself as much as for the show. — Adam Richman

Sometimes the lambs slaughter the butcher. — Amarillo Slim

Look around the table. If you don't see a sucker, get up, because you're the sucker. — Amarillo Slim

I ain't rich, but Lord I'm free. Amarillo by morning, Amarillo is where I'll be. — George Strait

I don't believe in hunches. Hunches are for dogs making love. — Amarillo Slim

My favorite chip trick is to make everyone's chip stack disappear. — Amarillo Slim

Actually, I think you sound more Southern than me." "I blame my Mama for that, too," he replied. "She was an old-time rodeo queen from Amarillo, Texas. She homeschooled me and my brother Dirk until high school, so the Texas twang kinda stuck. Now as for Georgia, I find it a real shame you'd want to get rid of it. I find a woman with a soft Southern drawl incredibly sexy." "Tell you what, when I decide I want to be sexy for you, I'll be sure to turn it on full force."
She was a real firecracker, this Georgia girl. He liked that. He answered her with a grin. "I'll look forward to it." "In your dreams, cowboy," he thought he heard her mutter under her breath.
He cocked his head, "What was that?"
"Coffee?" She smiled wide. "If I recall, you promised me Starbucks. — Victoria Vane

I dont play any two suited cards. I play any two non-suited cards. That way I am drawing at two different flushes. — Amarillo Slim

There's no way that I could have known about a 72-oz. steak challenge in Amarillo unless thousands upon thousands of locals and travellers alike had attempted it. I guess if 'Man V Food' is me paying homage to these legends, then I suppose 'Man V Food Nation' is the legacy. — Adam Richman

...there should be a few places where prairie dogs can just be prairie dogs, where they can kick back and fulfill their niches in the grand scheme of the shortgrass prairie, work on their whistles, try to dig to China or least to Amarillo. Sooner or later a hungry mother kit fox will strike blood, but until then there should be a few places where prairie dogs don't have to worry about two guys bumping chests behind a pickup truck after a single exploding bullet launches them heavenward for an extra eleven points. "Montana Mist!" If not on public lands like the Cimarron National Grassland, then where? — George Frazier

You can shear a sheep a hundred times, but you can skin it only once. — Amarillo Slim

Every facet of Amarillo a testament to a nation of bad-ass firsts: first in prison population, first in meat consumption, first in operational strategic warheads, first in per-capita carbon emissions, first in line for the Rapture. Whether American liberals liked it or not, Amarillo was how the rest of the world saw their country. — Jonathan Franzen

If you are going to bluff, make it a big one. — Amarillo Slim

Titanic Thompson and Amarillo Slim would have run from a game with Marty Stanovich. Marty could really play, and he didn't cheat. — Evel Knievel

the over-under, is just another example of how the bookmakers are always looking for more options to give the guesser an opportunity — Amarillo Slim Preston