Steve Irwin
Steve Irwin
Stephen Robert "Steve" Irwin, nicknamed "The Crocodile Hunter", was an Australian wildlife expert, television personality, and conservationist. Irwin achieved worldwide fame from the television series The Crocodile Hunter, an internationally broadcast wildlife documentary series which he co-hosted with his wife Terri. Together, the couple also owned and operated Australia Zoo, founded by Irwin's parents in Beerwah, about 80 kilometresnorth of the Queensland state capital city of Brisbane...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth22 February 1962
CountryAustralia
Steve Irwin quotes about
I have a deep-seated respect for parrots. As gifted as I am with all other wildlife, parrots have this uncanny desire to kill me. I'm not sure why, but they're like my kryptonite!
The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue.
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.
Where I live if someone gives you a hug it's from the heart. I've had these blokes in Hollywood hug me trying to make out I'm their friend and as soon as I turn their back they take out a big bunch of knives and stab me in the back. I feel sorry for these people because they are so shallow.
Crocodiles. I’ve been catching them since I was nine. No problem.
Statistically there's only one crocodile-related human fatality per year in the whole of Australia.
And that unusual squawking sound is actually the mating call of the the rare...oh, it's just an oboe player.
Australia has one of the worst mammalian extinction rates in the world.
I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable.
Born a wildlife warrior, die a wildlife warrior.
I probably don`t show fear, but I suffer from fear like everyone else.
We don’t own the planet Earth, we belong to it. And we must share it with our wildlife.
I've probably saved thousands of peoples' lives with my educational message on snake bites, how to get in around venomous anything.
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.