Quotes from Steve Irwin

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I'm a proud Australian, a very, very proud Australian.

No matter where you go and what you do in America, you turn the tele on and you're confronted with violence.

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

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.

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

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

Born a wildlife warrior, die a wildlife warrior.

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