Doyle Brunson Quotes

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

— Doyle Brunson

“Ninety percent of the hands aren't shown in a poker game.”

— Doyle Brunson

“I still have the mentality of a 19-year-old mind.”

— Doyle Brunson

“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

“It's not the cards that you have all the time that makes you a winner or a loser.”

— Doyle Brunson

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

— Doyle Brunson

“Everyone gets lucky once in a while, but no one is consistently lucky.”

— Doyle Brunson

“When you go card dead its torture just sitting there.”

— 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

“Try to decide how good your hand is at a given moment. Nothing else matters. Nothing.”

— Doyle Brunson

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

— Doyle Brunson

“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

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

— 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

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

— Doyle Brunson

“We never talk about gambling around my house.”

— 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

“Through the years I've never stopped doing things, thinking about things, and I still think young.”

— 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

“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