Quotes from Steve Irwin

medieval attitudes such as "the only good croc is a dead one," "the only good shark is a dead shark," "there's a snake—quick, kill it.

If we can get people excited about animals, then by crikey, it makes it a heck of a lot easier to save them.

It causes me great pain and anxiety to inflict fear on this poor old croc, but without me, he and his wilderness would suffer.

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

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

Every single day of our lives involves wildlife education. We must teach, spread the word, the wildlife gospel.

Statistically there's only one crocodile-related human fatality per year in the whole of Australia.

Australia has one of the worst mammalian extinction rates in the world.

For example, as you're reading this paragraph, our whales and dolphins are still dying painful lingering deaths.

There are still countries that kill dolphins for use as crab bait!

What good is a fast car, a flash house, and a gold-plated dunny to me. Absolutely no good at all.

Since I was a boy, from this house, I was out rescuing crocodiles and snakes. My mum and dad were very passionate about that and, I was lucky enough to go along.

No, snakes are no problem. I'd go to any country, anywhere, any snakes, not a problem.

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 past.

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

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

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.

My field is with apex predators, hence your crocodiles, your snakes, your spiders.

I bled a lot. I got hit across the face. We couldn't film for seven days. I got hit, whacked, underwater, across the face. I finished the shot, got into the boat and blood started coming out.

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.

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.

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

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.

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