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

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

Steve Irwin

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 past.

Steve Irwin

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

Now more than ever we are all becoming more aware about the need to conserve our precious living heritage.

Steve Irwin

Since I was a boy, from this house, I was out rescuing crocodiles and snakes. My mum and dad were very passionate about that and, I was lucky enough to go along.

Steve Irwin

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

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

Steve Irwin

Statistically there’s only one crocodile-related human fatality per year in the whole of Australia.

Steve Irwin

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

Steve Irwin