Quotes About Amarillo

#1. There's no way that I could have known about a 72-oz. steak challenge in Amarillo unless thousands upon thousands of locals and travellers alike had attempted it. I guess if 'Man V Food' is me paying homage to these legends, then I suppose 'Man V Food Nation' is the legacy.

Adam Richman

#2. Of all the songs I've recorded, 'Amarillo By Morning' always sticks out in my mind.

George Strait

#3. My most memorable food challenge was probably the Big Texan in Amarillo. All the big executives called me because it was such an iconic challenge, and a victory in that would be a legitimizing device for myself as much as for the show.

Adam Richman

#4. I ain't rich, but Lord I'm free. Amarillo by morning, Amarillo is where I'll be.

George Strait

#5. Titanic Thompson and Amarillo Slim would have run from a game with Marty Stanovich. Marty could really play, and he didn't cheat.

Evel Knievel

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

Amarillo Slim

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

Amarillo Slim

#8. the over-under, is just another example of how the bookmakers are always looking for more options to give the guesser an opportunity

Amarillo Slim Preston

#9. To do otherwise with a 'prentice was to ask for a second, less playful bite. And who would be to blame for that? Who but the teacher? For was he not training her to bite? Training both of them to bite?

Stephen King

#10. 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

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

Amarillo Slim

#12. Flattery is like wine, which exhilarates a man for a moment, but usually ends by going to his head and making him act foolishly.

Helen Rowland

#13. For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step.

Thomas A Kempis

#14. When a band of flute players attempted a musical concert at a triumph in 167, the audience forced the musicians to change their performance into a boxing match.15 In the widening middle classes commercialism

Will Durant

#15. Since 1787 the principle of freedom of religion has been attacked but never overthrown. Keeping education in the United States free of sectarian influence has long been one of the primary struggles of believers in freedom of religion.

Joseph Leon Blau

#16. Just like everything else in life that seemed inexplicable, people always tried to find an explanation.

Tim O'Rourke

#17. A horrible script 99 percent of the time means a horrible movie. But if you start with a good script, odds are you're going to have a good movie.

Ricky Schroder

#18. Reality is apparent when one ceases to compare.

Bruce Lee

#19. 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

#20. Sometimes the lambs slaughter the butcher.

Amarillo Slim

#21. Oh, come on, Harry," said Hermione, suddenly impatient. "It's not Quidditch that's popular, it's you! You've never been more interesting, and frankly, you've never been more fanciable.

J.K. Rowling

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

Amarillo Slim

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

Amarillo Slim

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

Amarillo Slim