Steve Irwin

“No, snakes are no problem. I'd go to any country, anywhere, any snakes, not a problem.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Crikey means gee whiz, wow!”

“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.”

“That might have a lot to do with it, but you know, I probably don't show fear, but I suffer from fear like everyone else.”

“Herein lies our problem. If we level that much land to grow rice and whatever, then no other animal could live there except for some insect pest species. Which is very unfortunate.”

“I get called an adrenaline junkie every other minute, and I'm just fine with that.”

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

“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.”

“Yeah, I'm a thrill seeker, but crikey, education's the most important thing.”

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

“No matter where you go and what you do in America, you turn the tele on and you're confronted with violence.”

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

“I believe our biggest issue is the same biggest issue that the whole world is facing, and that's habitat destruction.”

“Where I live if someone gives you a hug it's from the heart.”

“I bled a lot. I got hit across the face. We couldn't film for seven days. I got hit, whacked, underwater, across the face. I finished the shot, got into the boat and blood started coming out.”