Top 9 Quotes by Amarillo Slim

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

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

Amarillo Slim

Sheep, Skins, Hundred

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

Amarillo Slim

Sports, Hockey, Looks

"Amarillo Slim obituary" by Michael Carlson, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2012.

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

Amarillo Slim

Gambling, Champion, Looks

Amarillo Slim Preston, Greg Dinkin (2013). “Amarillo Slim in a World Full of Fat People: The Memoirs of the Greatest Gambler Who Ever Lived”, p.1, Harper Collins

Sometimes the lambs slaughter the butcher.

Amarillo Slim

Lambs, Sometimes, Butchers

Amarillo Slim Preston, Bill G. Cox (1973). “Play poker to win”, Not Avail

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

Amarillo Slim

Dog, Believe, Making Love

Amarillo Slim Preston, Bill G. Cox (1973). “Play poker to win”, Not Avail

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

Play, Two, Drawing

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

Hurt, Stupid, Thinking

Amarillo Slim Preston, Greg Dinkin (2013). “Amarillo Slim in a World Full of Fat People: The Memoirs of the Greatest Gambler Who Ever Lived”, p.21, Harper Collins