George W. Bush Quotes

I learnt the game as a kid hustling car dealers for cash.

When I first went to Vegas, there were just high-rollers and gamblers and the wise guys treated you great.

I moved to Chicago in 1980 to go to college.

Poker is a charismatic game. People who are larger than life play poker and make their living from playing games and hustling.

Chicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America.

The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy days, this is small-time stuff. Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth, but the era when they ruled the city is gone forever.

Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.

Mahalia Jackson, I grew up around the corner from in Chicago.

Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.

I was what they call a pool hustler. That's absolutely true. For long periods of time I got by, barely skimmed by, just playing pool.

I remember playing in Union City, and we had crap games after we finished playing at night. We would go next door to the cab stand where they were playing gin rummy and betting $1,000 a hand.

I'm from the street. We all know that.

Chicago prides itself on being a mean city.

I made the choice to go into the world of underground poker.

I love 'Chicago,' I love the musical and the movie and I thought Catherine Zeta-Jones was amazing.

Terre Haute. They used to call it 'Terrible Hut' because it was so wide open. Gambling, red light district, speak-easies. I entertained for all the gangsters. Can't name a gangster that didn't come into the place where I worked.

I'll always love the city of Chicago.

I love Chicago. I think it's an amazing city.

I always had one ear offstage, listening for the call from the bookie.

I have a lot of real life experience with hustling and doing stupid stuff.

Running a casino is like robbing a bank with no cops around. For guys like me, Las Vegas washes away your sins. It's like a morality car wash.

[Chicago]: This vicious, stinking zoo, this mean-grinning, mace-smelling boneyard of a city: an elegant rockpile of a monument to everything cruel and stupid and corrupt in the human spirit.

You don't know what pressure is until you play for five bucks with only two bucks in your pocket.

The woman hanging from the 13th floor window on the east side of Chicago is not alone...She is all the women of the apartment building who stand watching her, watching themselves.

Click bang, what a hang, your daddy just shot poor me.