Tigers Quotes - Page 9

• 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 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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• If I had my way... there wouldn't be a single lion or tiger in captivity anywhere in the world. They never take to it. They're never happy. They never settle down... You can see it in their eyes.

  Hugh Lofting

  Zoos, Eye, Never Settle

  Hugh Lofting (1922). “The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle”, p.62, Frederick A. Stokes

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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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• Strip the human race, absolutely naked, and it would be a real democracy. But the introduction of even a rag of tiger skin, or a cowtail, could make a badge of distinction and be the beginning of a monarchy.

  Mark Twain

  Real, Race, Clothes

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1948). “Mark Twain at your fingertips”

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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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• 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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• 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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• Mankind has invested more than four million years of evolution in the attempt to avoid physical exertion. Now a group of backward-thinking atavists mounted on foot-powered pairs of Hula-Hoops would have us pumping our legs, gritting our teeth, and searing our lungs as though we were being chased across the Pleistocene savanna by saber-toothed tigers. Think of the hopes, the dreams, the effort, the brilliance, the pure force of will that, over the eons, has gone into the creation of the Cadillac Coupe de Ville. Bicycle riders would have us throw all this on the ash heap of history.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Inspirational, Dream, Thinking

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of P.J. O'Rourke”, p.126, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I'll never forget that first night with the team. Going to the ballpark on the bus was the hardest 30 minutes of my life. I had to walk down that aisle between all the players. I really didn't know too much about the Detroit Tigers at that time.

  Al Kaline

  Sports, Team, Player

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• Meditation is another dimension of natural beauty. People talk about appreciating natural beauty-climbing mountains, seeing giraffes and tigers in Africa, and all sorts of things. But nobody seems to appreciate this kind of natural beauty of ourselves. This is actually far more beautiful than flora and fauna, far more fantastic, far more painful and colorful and delightful.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Beautiful, Climbing, Practice

  Chogyam Trungpa (2001). “Glimpses of Abhidharma: From a Seminar on Buddhist Psychology”, p.66, Shambhala Publications

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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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• The Tiger's Curse Series has everything my heart could desire in a fantasy: exotic locations, two dashing princes, good vs. evil, the promise of danger and adventure lurking around every corner—and did I mention two dashing princes? Warning: these books may cause you to forget anything else exists until you've turned the last enthralling page. And then you'll want to start all over again!

  Bree Despain

  Book, Heart, Adventure

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• That cactus went right through my eye. It left my eye flat. They took me to a doctor, and he said, 'We'll have to take the eye out.' ...I fought like a tiger. I said, 'No! Leave the eye alone. I am sure it will grow back.' The doctor said, 'You're too young to know.' ...But in a year's time that fluid came back, and that eye is just as good as the other one today.

  Bernard Jensen

  Eye, Dark, Doctors

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• When you watch Tiger Woods, you're in awe of what he can do with a seven-iron. Watching Matthew Stafford from up here, he's head and shoulders above most college quarterbacks.

  Gary Danielson

  College, Iron, Watches

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• I had a really good feeling about that match. You know, they are good friends, and Chris had to feel really relaxed because of being out there with Tiger.

  Hal Sutton

  Friends, Sports, Good Friend

  Interview, www.rydercup.com. September 18, 2004.

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• The first time I ever saw Arnold Palmer, I said, There's a star. The first time I saw Jack Nicklaus, I said, Superstar. I feel the same way about Tiger Woods.

  Gary Player

  Sports, Stars, Woods

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• With the tiger you're always on edge, and you always have to keep your distance. The monkey is far less threatening so you're more relaxed around the monkey, and I think that's actually hazardous.

  Ed Helms

  Distance, Thinking, Monkeys

  "THE HANGOVER PART II On Set Interview with Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis and Director Todd Phillips". Interview with Andre Dellamorte, collider.com. May 3, 2011.

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• When a tiger changes his nature, Englishmen will change theirs.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Englishmen

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.134, Oxford University Press

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• And lastly, Chairman Khrushchev has compared the United States to a worn-out runner living on its past performance, and stated that the Soviet Union would out-produce the United States by 1970. Without wishing to trade hyperbole with the Chairman, I do suggest that he reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he his caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.

  John F. Kennedy

  Wall, Past, Ideas

  News Conferences, www.jfklibrary.org. June 28, 1961.

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• By privileges, immunities, or prerogatives to give unlimited swing to the passions of individuals, and then to hope that they will restrain them, is about as reasonable as to expect that the tiger will spare the hart to browse upon the herbage.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Passion, Swings, Giving

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.88

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• I haven't bought anything excessive. I do plan on buying an island and filling it with baby tigers, though.

  Kesha

  Baby, Islands, Buying

  Interview with Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2010.

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