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

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

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

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

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.

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

Sometimes the lambs slaughter the butcher.

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

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

Words have power. The power to soothe. The power to skewer someone through the heart. The power to render someone speechless.

You will know who truly loves you when you ask them to do an uncoventional favor.

Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious.

The wise fools who sit in the high places of justice fail to see that in revolutionary times vital issues are settled not by statutes, decrees and authorities, but in spite if them.

A man who keeps on going; a man who keeps his eye on the ball.

You are never so low that you deserve to be lower.

New York white youth were killing victims; that was a 'sociological' problem. But when black youth killed somebody, the power structure was looking to hang somebody.

Great anger and violence can never build a nation.

I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of.

I can shoot pool, and I can play ping-pong. I'm pretty good at those games.