My Favorite “Rounders” Quotes

Here are a list of my favorite Rounders (the movie) quotes. I tried to select some of the cleaner ones for this post. There are a ton of one-liners in this movie so there are several fantastic ones I’ve left out.

For some reason, reciting Rounders quotes gets me pumped to play some cards. Enjoy!

1) Mike McDermott: You can’t lose what you don’t put in the middle…..but you can’t win much either.

2) Mike McDermott: Listen, here’s the thing. If you can’t spot the sucker in the first half hour at the table, then you ARE the sucker.

3) Mike McDermott: It’s immoral to let a sucker keep his money.

4) Worm: Why do you think your moves are so grand and noble and I’m always the idiot piece of shit!

5) Professor Petrovsky: We can’t run from who we are. Our destiny chooses us.

6) Mike McDermott: I want him to think that I am pondering a call, but all I’m really thinkin about it Vegas and the f’n Mirage.

7) Mike McDermott: I feel like Buckner walking back into Shea.

8) Mike McDermott: The game is no limit hold ‘em. The Cadillac of poker.

9) Worm: Like my uncle Les used to say “When the money is gone, it’s time to move on”. So enjoy it, you secret handshaking assholes.

10) Mike McDermott: In “Confessions of a Winning Poker Player,” Jack King said, “Few players recall big pots they have won, strange as it seems, but every player can remember with remarkable accuracy the outstanding tough beats of his career.” It seems true to me, cause walking in here, I can hardly remember how I built my bankroll, but I can’t stop thinking of how I lost it.