Al Alvarez's Quotes

I think one of the interesting things about poker is that once you let your ego in, you're done for.

I absolutely don't believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck.

I could think of worse ways of going than at the poker table.

I hate writing.

I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients.

I'm good at reading people.

Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it's a kind of risky trade.

The fact that we write about it doesn't mean we play better than ordinary players at all.

When you make a bet, you're saying something.

Yes, I think poker really isn't gambling.

But in a tournament, you can be said in for all your money at any point so you can't make any mistakes so you have to, it's all about where you're sitting at the table.

I mean to say, this is the book and I really loathe it and I can't imagine what a nice Jewish boy like me ever, how I ever got into this dreadful trade.

Corona Light has had very faithful stewardship from us from the very beginning in 1989.

In a way, the popularity of Corona came too fast for its own good, initially. We took a few steps back.

In a family business, you grow up with close contact to the business, whatever it is, and the beer business is certainly a very social type of business.

The Corona Extra brand was launched in Austin, Texas. From Austin, where it was exclusively for three or four months, it became more widely available in that state and in others, primarily in the southwest and western United States.