Top 50 Steve Irwin Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “We don’t own the planet Earth, we belong to it. And we must share it with our wildlife.”

— Steve Irwin

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2. “The message is simple: love and conserve our wildlife.”

— Steve Irwin

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3. “Crocodiles are easy. They try to kill and eat you. People are harder. Sometimes they pretend to be your friend first.”

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4. “All you have to do in life is be passionate and enthusiastic and you will have a wonderful life.”

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5. “I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.”

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6. “I have a message for my fans. Whatever you want to do in this world, it is achievable. The most important thing that I’ve found, that perhaps you could use, is be passionate and enthusiastic in the direction that you choose in life, and you’ll be a winner.”

— Steve Irwin

7. “But I put my life on the line to save animals.”

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8. “I have no fear of losing my life – if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it.”

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9. “The truth is that we will never save wildlife by killing it.”

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10. “If we save our wild places, we will ultimately save ourselves.”

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11. “Born a wildlife warrior, die a wildlife warrior.”

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12. “We humans still have a long way to go with learning to live harmoniously with our environment and its wildlife.”

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13. “If you can’t excite people about wildlife, how can you convince them to love, cherish, and protect our wildlife and the environment they live in?”

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14. “If we can teach people about wildlife, they will be touched. Share my wildlife with me. Because humans want to save things that they love.”

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15. “I believe sustainable use is the greatest propaganda in wildlife conservation at the moment.”

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16. “You know, I’m Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other.”

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17. “Crikey means gee whiz, wow!”

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18. “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 pest.”

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19. “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

20. “Crikey means gee whiz, wow! Crikey, mate. You’re far safer dealing with crocodiles and western diamondback rattlesnakes than the executives and the producers and all those sharks in the big MGM building.”

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21. “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!”

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

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23. “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.”

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

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25. “What good is a fast car, a flash house, and a gold-plated dunny to me. Absolutely no good at all.”

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26. “I’m a proud Australian, a very, very proud Australian.”

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

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28. “I probably don’t show fear, but I suffer from fear like everyone else.”

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29. “My job, my mission, the reason I’ve been put onto this planet, is to save wildlife. And I thank you for comin’ with me. Yeah, let’s get ’em!”

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

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31. “Yeah, for some reason parrots have to bite me. That’s their job. I don’t know why that is. They’ve nearly torn my nose off. I’ve had some really bad parrot bites.”

— Steve Irwin

32. “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.”

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

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34. “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

35. “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.”

— Steve Irwin

36. “When the East Timor conflict broke out, when they gained independence, the militia killed a lot of East Timorese people. And their sacred totem is the crocodile. They believe that their island is actually a solidified crocodile, so it has sacred status.”

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37. “If we can get people excited about animals, then by crikey, it makes it a heck of a lot easier to save them.”

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

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

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40. “See, I’ve always seen Jacques Cousteau as a hero, mate. He’s a legend – like my dad, just a legend. And so what he did for conservation in the ’60s through the ’70s was just phenomenal.”

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41. “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.”

— Steve Irwin

42. “I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet.”

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43. “I think my path would have always gone back to or delivered me to wildlife. I think wildlife is just like a magnet, and it’s something that I can’t help.”

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44. “Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent.”

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45. “I would sooner die of a taipan bite then tell my dad that I got bitten by a taipan. Because my nose would bleed from his kicking my ass.”

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46. “So, my tactic with conservation of apex predators is to get people excited and take them to where they live.”

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47. “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.”

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48. “Yeah, I think it’s an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling.”

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

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50. “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.”

— Steve Irwin