Brunson Quotes & Sayings

We never talk about gambling around my house. — Doyle Brunson

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

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

When you go card dead its torture just sitting there. — Doyle Brunson

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

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

There's no life like the life I've lived. You're free like a cloud floating up in the sky. — Doyle Brunson

It's hard to get on the path to love when you're at war with yourself. — Paul Carrick Brunson

Maybe it sounds like I'm splitting hairs here but I don't wanna perform for a living, I wanna live for a living. — Jim Parrack

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

The natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be learned by painful processes of drill. — Woodrow Wilson

May the flop be with you. — Doyle Brunson

The key to No-Limit ... is to put a man to a decision for all his chips. — Doyle Brunson

Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them. — Katherine Mansfield

Who needs a handbag? I put my money in my bra. — Neneh Cherry

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. — Henry David Thoreau

Poker is war. People pretend it is a game."
~Doyle Brunson — Kiara Delaney

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

FitLife.tv's problem wasn't a traffic or conversion problem. It rarely is. More often than not, it's a FUNNEL problem. — Russell Brunson

Through the years I've never stopped doing things, thinking about things, and I still think young. — Doyle Brunson

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

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. — Doyle Brunson

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

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

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

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

Time travel is a fantasy...isn't it? Not anymore! — Tammy Tate

A man with money is no match against a man on a mission. — Doyle Brunson

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

The light from the oncoming train focuses the mind. — Bruce Springsteen

The idea that we industrialized humans are immune to the natural laws that have restrained growth in other species-and humans in past social regimes-is to me so self-servingly blind as to be morally reprehensible. — Richard Heinberg

Many people say he's plain- well, perhaps he is. But then, perhaps they've never seen the way his eyes flash when his face lights up with that smile of his. His smile- it's like a sudden flash of lightening across a stormy summer sky. Powerful, more than a little dangerous- but so wildly beautiful. And they have never heard the way his voice can roll, like the sea. Gentle at times, fierce at times, but always so deep and and sure. Perhaps they don't see it because he dosen't show them... or perhaps he dosen't show them because they wouldn't see. But I do. And so, I can never think him plain. ~H.D. — Anonymous

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. — Doyle Brunson

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. — Doyle Brunson

In order to deceive others, it is necessary also to deceive oneself. The actor playing Hamlet must indeed believe that he is the Prince of Denmark, though when he leaves the stage he will usually remember who he really is. On the other hand, when someone's entire life is based on pretense, they will seldom if ever return to reality. That is the secret of successful politicians, evangelists and confidence tricksters - they believe that they are telling the truth, even when they know that they have faked the evidence. Sincerity, my dear Julia, is a quality not to be trusted. — Sarah Caudwell