Terri Irwin Quotes

We provoke a shark every time we enter the water where sharks happen to be, for we forget: The ocean is not our territory - it's theirs.

I think sharks are beautiful creatures, and I don't think we should stop going in the ocean because of them. You drive down the road and you get in an accident, but most people end up driving down the road again. Surfing is you're going into their home and it's just a natural part of life.

We should be afraid of sharks half as much as sharks should be afraid of us.

I still think there's a big part of the population that has a lot of misinformation about sharks. But I think it's beginning to change a little bit. As good information about sharks permeates popular culture, things may start to change.

Many people continue to think of sharks as man-eating beasts. Sharks are enormously powerful and wild creatures, but you're more likely to be killed by your kitchen toaster than a shark!

Twenty-five years ago nobody knew much about white sharks.

I've never been bitten by a shark, though God knows I had to poke a lot of them in the nose.

Sharks freak me out.

There's still a lot of people out there who think the only good shark is a dead shark.

Sharks are just evil bastards. I'm quite happy if all the sharks just went, because they eat fish and us. And we need the fish.

People don't need to be scared. I tickle sharks. I do, when they swim by.

If I swim in the ocean, I have a shark thought. Not a bad one, but just a little one.

I've seen sharks in the ocean, it hasn't made me get out of the ocean; that's for sure.

On Cape Cod, great white shark stocks have been growing, or at least becoming more concentrated, because of the multiplying numbers of seals around Monomoy Island. We are fortunate to have such abundance of these sharks in our own waters. Around the globe, we are killing in excess of 100 million sharks each year.

For a photographer, sharks are a stirring subject, possessing a perfect blend of grace and power. They have been sculpted by evolution and are ideally suited for whichever ecosystem they inhabit, from coral reefs to the open ocean.

I hope that 'Jaws' will have brought sharks into the public interest at a time when we desperately need to reevaluate our care for the environment.

I don't use cages - I've been surrounded by 150 to 200 sharks, not once ever been close to being bitten.

I get a bit depressed if I walk into a restaurant and see shark-fin soup on the menu.

Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain.

I have photographed sharks in waters around the globe, and I always want more and yearn to peer deeper into their world. To feed my passion and to raise awareness, I developed a story about sharks for 'National Geographic' magazine.

I am terrified of sharks, so I don't surf!

Sharks are beautiful animals, and if you're lucky enough to see lots of them, that means that you're in a healthy ocean. You should be afraid if you are in the ocean and don't see sharks.

For the sake of peace you have to accept risk.

Out here in California, in the Pacific Ocean, the sharks have a bad attitude.

Pigs eat more tuna than all the planet's sharks combined.