Steve Irwin Quotes

Unlike New Zealand, which has nothing especially predatory, Australia is full of spiders and crocodiles and all kinds of animals that will eat you and sting you.

I spent a lot of my life - 20 years of it - in war, training army trackers and commanding a tracker unit, and then in the Game Department, tracking lions and elephants and poachers. So I've spent literally thousands of hours tracking people or animals, and training others to do it.

You know, tigers are very unpredictable.

I have tested my nerve by reaching a little too closely toward a lengthy alligator on the Gulf Coast and a saucer-sized tarantula in a Houston car park.

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

Working with crocodiles is always amazing because they're beautiful. They're modern day dinosaurs, which is really cool.

I've done a lot of that kind of work before, anyway, and I was in good hands.

There is no comparison. The American landscape is so much more dangerous. They have real snakes, mountain lions, bears; we only have adders, and they're more frightened of us than we are of them.

I like to act with people that know what they're doing.

They're one of - crocs and snakes are two of my favorite animals. They're so good.

I've done it all.

I shot my first lion at the age of 14 when a pride threatened my father's livestock while he was away on holiday.

Bears are extremely human, even down to their footprints. But I am also a fly fisherman, so I have fished beside brown bears in Alaska and was once charged by a black bear. I love bears.

It's like going to the zoo when you come to my house. I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, piranhas, five scorpions and a bird spider.

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

It's very normal - when you're not used to the world of the high wire, it's very normal to be simply terrified. The reason I'm not is because I've done it for so many years.

Usually people just hire me.

I have held healthy respects of bears along with assorted crocodiles, snakes and lots of other animals. You know, bears are dangerous, you have to be super careful.

Well, I'm a professional.

Give me a 15-ft. crocodile any day over a bee.

Crocodiles are really bold, and they do come up on land.

You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.

Deer are as plentiful as chickens on a farm.

I am used to playing with fire. Somebody has to do it.

A man who risks his life in shooting big game in order to secure good specimens for natural history collections, or to rid a district of a man-eater or other dangerous neighbor, is a sportsman in the true sense.