Steve Irwin famous quotes

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

#I Hate You #People #Trying

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

#Believe #Issues #Environmental

I have a message for my fans. Whatever you want to do in this world, it is achievable. The most important thing that I've found, that perhaps you could use, is be passionate and enthusiastic in the direction that you choose in life, and you'll be a winner.
-- Steve Irwin

#Life #Important #Use

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

#Optimistic #Environment #Scientist

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.
-- Steve Irwin

#People #Want #Wildlife

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

#Education #Motivation #Believe

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

#Hunters #Conservation #Crocodiles

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

#People #Tactics #Predator

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.
-- Steve Irwin

#Lying #Animal #Land

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!
-- Steve Irwin

#Jobs #Ems #Wildlife

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

#Motivation #Inspiration #Heart

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

#Passionate #Wonderful #Life Is

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

#Nine #Problem #Crocodiles

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

#Future #Believe #Wildlife

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

#Wildlife #Earth #Share

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.
-- Steve Irwin

#Wildlife #Sitting #Shooting

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.
-- Steve Irwin

#Snakes #Matter #Walks

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.
-- Steve Irwin

#Team #Boys #Cameras

I probably don`t show fear, but I suffer from fear like everyone else.
-- Steve Irwin

#Suffering #Shows

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.
-- Steve Irwin

#Animal #Doe #Matter

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

#Humor #Sense Of Humor #Worst

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

#Important #Thrill #Yeah

Crikey means gee whiz, wow!
-- Steve Irwin

#Mean #Wow

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

#Fine #Minutes #Adrenaline

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.
-- Steve Irwin

#Nature #Fear #Koalas

I'm a proud Australian, a very, very proud Australian.
-- Steve Irwin

#Proud

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.
-- Steve Irwin

#Memories #Dad #People

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.
-- Steve Irwin

#Jobs #Noses #Reason

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

#Passion #Television #Enthusiasm

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

#America #Violence #Matter

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.
-- Steve Irwin

#Snakes #Sticks #Turns

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

#Thinking #Government #Australia

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

#Educational #Snakes #Messages

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.
-- Steve Irwin

#Animal #Get Better #Ems

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

#Years #Age #Nine

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!
-- Steve Irwin

#Kryptonite #Desire #Wildlife

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

#Animal #Lines #Saving Animals

My number one rule is to keep that camera rolling. Even if it's shaky or slightly out of focus, I don't give a rip. Even if a big old alligator is chewing me up I want to go down and go, 'Crikey!' just before I die. That would be the ultimate for me.
-- Steve Irwin

#Rip #Numbers #Giving

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.
-- Steve Irwin

#Believe #Cutting #Tree

I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet. Unfortunately there are countries who are still destroying it, but we really hope the conservation message rubs off in our film. Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent.
-- Steve Irwin

#Country #Optimistic #Environmental

Born a wildlife warrior, die a wildlife warrior.
-- Steve Irwin

#Future #Warrior #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.
-- Steve Irwin

#Thinking #Path #Wildlife

The message is simple: love and conserve our wildlife.
-- Steve Irwin

#Simple #Simple Love #Messages

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

#Wildlife #Truth Is #Killing

We humans still have a long way to go with learning to live harmoniously with our environment and its wildlife.
-- Steve Irwin

#Long #Way #Wildlife

If we save our wild places, we will ultimately save ourselves.
-- Steve Irwin

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

#Mistake #Making Mistakes #Helping

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.
-- Steve Irwin

#Dad #Intuition #Lucky

Crikey means gee whiz, wow! Crikey, mate. You're far safer dealing with crocodiles and western diamondback rattlesnakes than the executives and the producers and all those sharks in the big MGM building.
-- Steve Irwin

#Mean #Sharks #Wow