Steve Irwin Quotes

Crocodiles are easy. They try to kill and eat you. People are harder. Sometimes they pretend to be your friend first.

I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it.

Yeah, I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling.

I believe our biggest issue is the same biggest issue that the whole world is facing, and that's habitat destruction.

So, my tactic with conservation of apex predators is to get people excited and take them to where they live.

We don’t own the planet Earth, we belong to it. And we must share it with our wildlife.

All you have to do in life is be passionate and enthusiastic and you will have a wonderful life.

We've evolved from sitting back on our tripods and shooting wildlife films like they have been shot historically, which doesn't work for us.

If we can teach people about wildlife, they will be touched. Share my wildlife with me. Because humans want to save things that they love.

If we save our wild places, we will ultimately save ourselves.

The only animals I'm not comfortable with are parrots, but I'm learning as I go. I'm getting better and better at 'em. I really am.

I sincerely believe that there's room for cutting down trees for forestry and grazing, so as we all get to eat. Everyone has to compromise.

My job, my mission, the reason I’ve been put onto this planet, is to save wildlife. And I thank you for comin’ with me. Yeah, let’s get 'em!

I want the cleanest water, the freshest air and wildlife in abundance... but most of all I want a future for our children.

Yeah, for some reason parrots have to bite me. That's their job. I don't know why that is. They've nearly torn my nose off. I've had some really bad parrot bites.

My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status, regardless of the pest.

I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet.

You know, you can touch a stick of dynamite, but if you touch a venomous snake it'll turn around and bite you and kill you so fast it's not even funny.

Crocodiles. I’ve been catching them since I was nine. No problem.

Where I live if someone gives you a hug it's from the heart.

Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent.

And that unusual squawking sound is actually the mating call of the the rare...oh, it's just an oboe player.

I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.

But I put my life on the line to save animals.

The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue.

Crikey means gee whiz, wow!

I probably don't show fear, but I suffer from fear like everyone else.

Born a wildlife warrior, die a wildlife warrior.

I get called an adrenaline junkie every other minute, and I'm just fine with that.

Take the crocodile, for example, my favorite animal. There are 23 species. Seventeen of those species are rare or endangered. They're on the way out, no matter what anyone does or says, you know.

The message is simple: love and conserve our wildlife.

I think my path would have always gone back to or delivered me to wildlife. I think wildlife is just like a magnet, and it's something that I can't help.

And I have stopped eating tuna until the tuna nets cease killing tens of thousands of dolphins every single year.

Snakes are just very instinctive to me. I've been playing with snakes since before I could walk. It doesn't matter where or what it is, from the biggest to the most venomous.

So now what happens is the cameras follow me around and capture exactly what I've been doing since I was a boy. Only now we have a team of, you know, like 73 of us, and it's gone beyond that.

The truth is that we will never save wildlife by killing it.

See, I've always seen Jacques Cousteau as a hero, mate. He's a legend - like my dad, just a legend. And so what he did for conservation in the '60s through the '70s was just phenomenal.

Yeah, I'm a thrill seeker, but crikey, education's the most important thing.

Herein lies our problem. If we level that much land to grow rice and whatever, then no other animal could live there except for some insect pest species. Which is very unfortunate.

I believe sustainable use is the greatest propaganda in wildlife conservation at the moment.

I've probably saved thousands of peoples' lives with my educational message on snake bites, how to get in around venomous anything.

What television has done is it's given me a stepping stone to get to some other countries and really wild destinations throughout this world, which perhaps I would have had to struggle to get to.

I have a deep-seated respect for parrots. As gifted as I am with all other wildlife, parrots have this uncanny desire to kill me. I'm not sure why, but they're like my kryptonite!

My belief is that what comes across on the television is a capture of my enthusiasm and my passion for wildlife.

So fear helps me from making mistakes, but I make lot of mistakes.

There's a lot of research behind the scenes that you don't get to see, but I have an instinct that my dad nurtured from when I was born. I was very lucky then.

I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable.

You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other.

scientific whaling, and other lies will be exposed and become atrocities of the past.

If you can't excite people about wildlife, how can you convince them to love, cherish, and protect our wildlife and the environment they live in?