Once when I was golfing in Georgia, I hooked the ball into…

See you later, alligator. After a while, crocodile.

— Bill Haley

Far off in the red mangroves an alligator has heaved himself onto a hummock of grass and lies there, studying his poems.

— Mary Oliver

First time I saw an alligator gar I damn near threw up. They ain't natural anything get that big. It's ten feet long and…

— Bukka White

I spent most of my 20s with these alligator wrestlers in the swamps of South Florida.

— Karen Russell

On one hole, I hit an alligator so hard, he's now my golf bag.

— Bob Hope

IGNORANCE I didn’t know love would make me this crazy, with my eyes like the river Ceyhun carrying me in its rapids out to…

— Rumi

Nobody in the city of Los Angeles knows how to catch an alligator, ... We have no experience in recreation and parks, the zoo…

— Janice Hahn

When I was a little kid, I was the first kid in my neighborhood to have a pet alligator.

— Benicio Del Toro

If I could rest anywhere, it would be in Arkansas, where the men are of the real half-horse, half-alligator breed such as grows nowhere…

— Davy Crockett

Remember that postcard Grandpa sent us from Florida of that Alligator biting that woman's bottom? That's right, we all thought it was hilarious. But,…

— Homer

Alligator: The crocodile of America, superior in every detail to the crocodile of the effete monarchies of the Old World.

— Ambrose Bierce

Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.

— Dan Rather

Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river.

— Cordell Hull

“You can be a mighty sailor, wrestling with an alligator. Romping through the swamp.”

— Dave Van Ronk

When Amos Moses was a boy his daddy would use him for alligator bait, tie a rope around his neck and throw him in…

— Jerry Reed