Steve Irwin > Quotes

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“If we save our wild places, we will ultimately save ourselves.”
― Steve Irwin, The Crocodile Hunter: The Incredible Life and Adventures of Steve and Terri Irwin

“Where I live if someone gives you a hug it’s from the heart.”
― Steve Irwin

“We don’t own the planet Earth, we belong to it. And we must share it with our wildlife.”
― Steve Irwin, The Crocodile Hunter: The Incredible Life and Adventures of Steve and Terri 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.”
― Steve Irwin

“It never ceases to amaze me how cruel some people are. Do you think people would be so merciless and torturous if fish and sharks cried like babies when they felt pain?”
― Steve Irwin, The Crocodile Hunter: The Incredible Life and Adventures of Steve and Terri Irwin

“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?”
― Steve Irwin, The Crocodile Hunter: The Incredible Life and Adventures of Steve and Terri Irwin

“The message is simple: love and conserve our wildlife.”
― Steve Irwin, The Crocodile Hunter: The Incredible Life and Adventures of Steve and Terri Irwin

“We humans still have a long way to go with learning to live harmoniously with our environment and its wildlife.”
― Steve Irwin, The Crocodile Hunter: The Incredible Life and Adventures of Steve and Terri Irwin

“The truth is that we will never save wildlife by killing it.”
― Steve Irwin, The Crocodile Hunter: The Incredible Life and Adventures of Steve and Terri Irwin

“If we can get people excited about animals, then by crikey, it makes it a heck of a lot easier to save them.”
― 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.”
― Steve Irwin, The Crocodile Hunter: The Incredible Life and Adventures of Steve and Terri Irwin

“Now more than ever we are all becoming more aware about the need to conserve our precious living heritage.”
― Steve Irwin, The Crocodile Hunter: The Incredible Life and Adventures of Steve and Terri Irwin

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

“Every single day of our lives involves wildlife education. We must teach, spread the word, the wildlife gospel.”
― Steve Irwin, The Crocodile Hunter: The Incredible Life and Adventures of Steve and Terri Irwin

“Statistically there’s only one crocodile-related human fatality per year in the whole of Australia.”
― Steve Irwin, The Crocodile Hunter: The Incredible Life and Adventures of Steve and Terri Irwin

“It causes me great pain and anxiety to inflict fear on this poor old croc, but without me, he and his wilderness would suffer.”
― Steve Irwin, The Crocodile Hunter: The Incredible Life and Adventures of Steve and Terri Irwin

“scientific whaling, and other lies will be exposed and become atrocities of the past.”
― Steve Irwin, The Crocodile Hunter: The Incredible Life and Adventures of Steve and Terri Irwin

“and I have stopped eating tuna until the tuna nets cease killing tens of thousands of dolphins every single year.”
― Steve Irwin, The Crocodile Hunter: The Incredible Life and Adventures of Steve and Terri Irwin

“Australia has one of the worst mammalian extinction rates in the world.”
― Steve Irwin, The Crocodile Hunter: The Incredible Life and Adventures of Steve and Terri Irwin

“There are still countries that kill dolphins for use as crab bait!”
― Steve Irwin, The Crocodile Hunter: The Incredible Life and Adventures of Steve and Terri Irwin

“For example, as you’re reading this paragraph, our whales and dolphins are still dying painful lingering deaths.”
― Steve Irwin, The Crocodile Hunter: The Incredible Life and Adventures of Steve and Terri Irwin

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