Steve Irwin Quotes - Page 3

What television has done is it's given me a stepping stone to get to some other countries and really wild destinations throughout this world, which perhaps I would have had to struggle to get to.

And I have stopped eating tuna until the tuna nets cease killing tens of thousands of dolphins every single year.

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

Australia has one of the worst mammalian extinction rates in the world.

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.

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.

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

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.

scientific whaling, and other lies will be exposed and become atrocities of the past.

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.

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.

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

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.