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It's not enough to win the tricks that belong to you. Try also
for some that belong to the opponents....Alfred Sheinwold

The real test of a bridge player isn't in keeping out of
trouble, but in escaping once he's in....Alfred Sheinwold

The trouble with women is that they treat bridge as a game.
They do not realize it is a war.

If you have the slightest touch of masochism, you'll love this
game.

We believe that contract bridge is particularly attractive to
people with a scrappy disposition...Frank Perkins

It's not the skill that drops off with age, it's the drive, the
killer instinct...and when a man isn't primed to kill he makes
mistakes.

Bridge is a great comfort in your old age. It also helps you
get there faster.

One gets used to abuse. It's waiting for it that is so
trying....Rueful Rabbit

Since the average person's small supply of politeness must last
him all his life, he can't afford to waste it on bridge
partners....Alfred Sheinwold

Bridge is essentially a social game, but unfortunately it
attracts a substantial number of antisocial people.

One advantage of bad bidding is that you get practice at
playing atrocious contracts...Alfred Sheinwold

"Where's the hand you held during the auction?"
... a comment Jan Nanitschke has made when dummy hits.

South: Alert! East: Yes? South: I'm requested to further
mis-describe my hand.

It is not the handling of difficult hands that makes the
winning player. There aren't enough of them. It is the ability
to avoid messing up the easy ones....Alan Sontag

Most bridge players prefer consistency in their partners rather
than brilliance...Matthew Granovetter

The sum of all technical knowledge cannot make a master
contract player...Ely Culbertson

A knowledge of the mechanics will suffice to put a player in a
commanding positiohn in the post-mortem. To become a member of
the upper crust calls for more, much more -- Resilience,
imagination, occasional flashes of inspiration: these are the
hallmarks of quality. And this transcends the realm of
science...Victor Mollo

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has
its limits.

Card sense is when it's technically right to do something, the
little man that sits on my shoulder or anyone else's shoulder
says, "Don't do that." And you say to yourself, "Well, wait a
minute, that's the right way to play." And he says, "Yeah, but
you don't wanna play that way." That instinct is card sense.
It's almost an ability to feel where the cards are. It's
something that you can't buy, you can't find; you're born with
it. The ability to do the right thing at the wrong time or
really to do the wrong thing at the right time....Barry Crane

I'm not sure whether glory or master points is first on the
list, but I know learning to play better is definitely last...Eddie Kantar

I'd like a review of the bidding with all the original
inflections.

The average defender operates in a fog of uncertainty...H. W. Kelsey

Regardless of what sadistic impulses we may harbor, winning
bridge means helping partner avoid mistakes...Frank Stewart

A player who can't defend accurately should try to be
declarer...Alfred Sheinwold

The real secret of the expert is to make logic seem like
flair...Hugh Kelsey

If you play bridge with your wife as partner, you need at least
20 points to open, and it wouldn't hurt to have 25...Joe James

Learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough
to make them all yourself... Alfred Sheinwold

I favor light opening bids. When you're my age, you're never
sure they're going to get back to you in time....Oswald Jacoby at 77

Years ago there were only two acceptable excuses for not
leading the suit your partner had opened: having no cards in
the suit, and sudden death....Alfred Sheinwold

I think we're all a little masochistic. Otherwise, why would we
continue to play bridge?

We had a partnership misunderstanding. My partner assumed I
knew what I was doing.

My partner is 20 years behind the times. Nowadays you pay your
money to bid. My partner still thinks you need cards.

Your play was much better tonight, and so were your excuses.

We play forcing hesitations.

A fellow had made a bad bid and gone down for 1400. "I'm
sorry," he said to his partner, "I had a card misplaced." Asked
his partner innocently, "Only one card?"... Charles Goren

If I did everything right, I wouldn't be playing with you!

When I take a 50-50 chance I expect it to come off 8 or 9 times
out of 10....Hideous Hog