You can be a mighty sailor, wrestling with an alligator…

Once when I was golfing in Georgia, I hooked the ball into the swamp. I went in after it and found an alligator wearing…

— Buddy Hackett

“anyone else would have just killed the alligator”

— Janet Evanovich

'Alligator' was the first record that anyone paid attention to, and it seemed like it was the screamy songs that got us that attention.

— Matt Berninger

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

An Alligator Loki is something that we all found hysterically funny.

— Kate Herron

“He asked me if the alligator was a national symbol of the United States, because you saw them everywhere on people's shirts, just above…

— Barbara Kingsolver

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

— Dan Rather

“Where was I when the rockets came to life And carried you away into the alligator sky Even though, I'll never know what's up…

— Owl City

I'd like to wrestle an alligator and fly a fighter jet.

— Frankie Ballard

“THE ALLIGATOR IS AN ANACHRONISM THAT CAN EAT YOU!”

— Karen Russell

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

— Cordell Hull

Keeping a woman to her word is like trying to hold an alligator by its tail.

— Vikrant Parsai

Don't insult the alligator until you've crossed the river.

— Nikhil Saluja

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

— Bill Haley