diff --git a/google/cloud/bigquery/retry.py b/google/cloud/bigquery/retry.py
index 830582322..8a86973cd 100644
--- a/google/cloud/bigquery/retry.py
+++ b/google/cloud/bigquery/retry.py
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ def _should_retry(exc):
 pass ``retry=bigquery.DEFAULT_RETRY.with_deadline(30)``.
 """
 
-DEFAULT_TIMEOUT = 5.0 * 60.0
+DEFAULT_TIMEOUT = None
 """The default API timeout.
 
 This is the time to wait per request. To adjust the total wait time, set a