Timothy Olyphant Quotes

I've seen sharks in the ocean, it hasn't made me get out of the ocean; that's for sure.

In the end, my love for surfing helped me overcome my fear of sharks.

Many people continue to think of sharks as man-eating beasts. Sharks are enormously powerful and wild creatures, but you're more likely to be killed by your kitchen toaster than a shark!

I am terrified of sharks, so I don't surf!

We're humans. We live on land. Sharks live in water. So if you're swimming in the water and a shark bites you, that's called trespassing. That is called trespassing. That is not a shark attack.

One of my fears would be getting torn apart by a great white shark. I love the ocean, but I always have this deep fear of getting torn apart by a great whitey.

People don't need to be scared. I tickle sharks. I do, when they swim by.

I love being in Malibu. It's so cool there, and the water is just, it's nice and, and I love the beach. And I found a sand dollar there.

Almost any shark, three or four feet long, could kill a human being if it chose to do it. It could make you bleed to death. But they don't.

I don't like the idea of being eaten by a shark. I like to swim in the ocean, and I think much more about sharks than anyone should. I really resent the fact that my oceangoing experiences are ruined by 'Jaws.'

Being a non-swimmer, I've never been excited by the sea so avoid it on holidays.

I've swam with great white sharks.

Sharks don't target human beings, and they certainly don't hold grudges.

People come to me and say, 'What'll I do if I go in the water and see a shark?' You don't have to do anything. The chances of that shark attacking you in any way is so remote. The sea should be enjoyed, the animals in it. When you see a shark underwater, you should say, 'How lucky I am to see this beautiful animal in his environment!'

It is not that I don't have a fear of sharks, it is that I have a respect for them, so that I know any more than if I were to go into the jungle, I would have a fear of tigers, that I would try to lower the odds.

Watching Jaws just scared the living daylights out of me when I was young. I know a lot of people my age who are still petrified of sharks because of that film.

Surfing big waves is not an extreme sport to me. I fall off, tumble down, and come up. My heart's racing because I'm thinking I almost drowned, and I thank God I can breathe again, but I always think, 'What am I hitting?' Water.

A great white jumped into my cage when I was diving in South Africa. Half its body was in the cage, and it was snapping at me.

Sharks freak me out.

So the hotel tells us that it is not safe to go in the water because its shark mating time. I know how I'd feel if someone interrupted me.

Interesting fact: a shark will only attack you if you’re wet.

I've always been freaked out in deep open water if there's a potential of sharks around.

You Know the Most Dangerous Thing In the Water? A Shark Fart.

I could never swim in the ocean after seeing Jaws.

I wanted a shark that's big enough to eat you, and in a large enough amount of liquid so that you could imagine you were in there with it.