In this chapter, we learn that the tiger's caretaker is not afraid of the tiger, and that the purpose of sport is to train the body, not to compete with it. The purpose of sports, the tiger tells us, is to "train my body" . The only reason the tiger continues to defend himself is because he's too strong. If he wanted to stand out among the other guys chasing after a certain woman, he wouldn't want to do so. The reason he keeps defending himself is that his strength is so strong that he can't stand it anymore.