Tigers Quotes - Page 12

• I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Adventure, Boys, Imagination

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• Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Men, Debt, Lost

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• No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness. There can be no reasoning with an incendiary bomb.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Men, Bombs, Ruthlessness

  The Great Arsenal of Democracy, delivered 29 December 1940

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• Once Confucius was walking on the mountains and he came across a woman weeping by a grave. He asked the woman what here sorrow was, and she replied, We are a family of hunters. My father was eaten by a tiger. My husband was bitten by a tiger and died. And now my only son! Why don't you move down and live in the valley? Why do you continue to live up here? asked Confucius. And the woman replied, But sir, there are no tax collectors here! Confucius added to his disciples, You see, a bad government is more to be feared than tigers.

  Lin Yutang

  Husband, Father, Moving

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• It is said in Java that the tiger's hearing is so acute that hunters must keep their nose hairs cut lest the tiger hear the breath whistle through their nostrils.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Cutting, Hair, Listening

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• So while I was in college I did a little study on the freight industry, the air freight industry. And I looked at this company called Flying Tiger. And I actually put a thousand dollars in it and I remember I thought this air cargo was going to be a thing of the future.

  Peter Lynch

  College, Air, Flying

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• There is a raging tiger inside every man whom God put on this earth. Every man worthy of the respect of his children spends his life building inside himself a cage to pen that tiger in.

  Murray Kempton

  Children, Men, Earth

  Murray Kempton (1972). “America comes of middle age: columns, 1950-1962”

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• I don't want to be a tiger, tigers play too rough. I don't want to be a lion, cause lions ain't the kind you love up.

  Elvis Presley

  Animal, Play, Lions

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• I'm a tiger when I want love, but I'm a snake if we disagree.

  Jethro Tull

  Animal, Snakes, Want

  Song: Bungle in the Jungle

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• When you're being stalked by an angry mob with raspberries, the first thing to do is to release a tiger.

  John Cleese

  Advice, Firsts, Raspberries

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• In me the tiger sniffs the rose.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Opposites, Rose, Duality

  Siegfried Sassoon (1947). “Collected Poems”, London : Faber and Faber

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• To me, Arnold was a pioneer in the spirit of Thomas Edison or Benjamin Franklin, while Tiger is a pioneer in the spirit of Bill Gates.

  Mark McCormack

  Pioneers, Pioneer Spirit, Bills

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• It's flattering to be compared in any way to Tiger Woods, because he's the best player in the world.

  Ivan Lendl

  Player, World, Woods

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• I know I was a great friend to Tiger Woods. But when you have a relationship that's involves business and friendship - and the business part comes to an end - things always get a little blurry.

  Hank Haney

  Friendship, Littles, Woods

  "'It's not easy being Tiger'". Interview with Scott T. Miller, www.espn.com. December 6, 2012.

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• Well it's not easy being Tiger Woods on the course. It's not easy being Tiger Woods off the course. In his defense, it's not easy being Tiger Woods.

  Hank Haney

  Defense, Woods, Easy

  "It's not easy being Tiger". Interview with Scott T. Miller, www.espn.com. December 6, 2012.

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• Does anyone actually think I'm going to call Tiger Woods and tell him what to do with his swing one day, and he's going to go out and do it, simple as that? It doesn't work like that.

  Hank Haney

  Simple, Thinking, Swings

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• To have the opportunity to work with Tiger Woods was just so awesome. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed the challenge. I enjoyed the good parts where he was winning. And I enjoyed the challenge to help him get better. But six years was enough.

  Hank Haney

  Winning, Opportunity, Years

  "'It's not easy being Tiger'". Interview with Scott T. Miller, www.espn.com. December 6, 2012.

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• When I was writing 'The White Tiger' I lived in a building pretty much exactly like the one I described in this novel, and the people in the book are the people I lived with back then. So I didn't have to do much research to find them.

  Aravind Adiga

  Book, Writing, White

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• Our concerns about what we saw in Australia: an economy clearly tied to China has hitched its wagon to the tail of the tiger. In terms of the general complacency, what we heard over and over from investors and clients and potential clients is, 'yes, yes, there are some excesses, but the government will figure out a way.

  James Chanos

  Government, Australia, Tails

  "JIM CHANOS: I Visited Hong Kong And Australia, And This Is What I Saw" by Joe Weisenthal, www.businessinsider.com. November 23, 2011.

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• I feel like a tiger right now. There's nothing impossible if you get up and work for it.

  Michael Flatley

  Impossible, Get Up, Feels

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• You don't see sick animals in the wild. You don't see lame animals in the wild, and its all because of the predator: the lion, the tiger, the leopard, all the cats.

  Tippi Hedren

  Cat, Animal, Sick

  "Better Known For 'Birds,' Tippi Hedren Prefers Cats". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. April 24, 2010.

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• Tiger Woods, Larry Bird, Wayne Gretzky, a pitcher just before a game, I would imagine they all have nervous energy. But as you perform, the nervous energy dissipates and you start to relax and you start to do what you do best.

  Randy Johnson

  Games, Bird, Relax

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• How can I intimidate Tiger Woods? I mean, the guy's got 75 or whatever PGA Tour wins, 14 majors. He's been the biggest thing ever in our sport. How could some little 23-year-old from Northern Ireland with a few wins come up and intimidate him.

  Rory McIlroy

  Sports, Mean, Winning

  "McIlroy dismisses claim that Tiger is 'intimidated'". edition.cnn.com. September 20, 2012.

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• I really enjoy playing 'Tiger Woods' on the Wii, and you can set the levels to easy, medium, or hard, so I think it's definitely a good way for kids to learn the motion of a golf swing if they want to get into the sport. It makes it more fun for them as well.

  Rory McIlroy

  Sports, Fun, Kids

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• Woods pumped both fists and yelled, as jacked as you'll ever see him. But the crowd explosion drowned out whatever was coming out of his mouth. It was the closest golf has ever come to sounding like fourth-and-goal at LSU's Tiger Stadium on a Saturday night.

  Pat Forde

  Golf, Night, Lsu

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