Romulus Whitaker Quotes

I've been bitten by a python. Not a very big one. I was being silly, saying: 'Oh, it's not poisonous...' Then, wallop! But you have fear around animals.

I was bitten by a viper; there were two marks on my hand.

Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.

I've probably saved thousands of peoples' lives with my educational message on snake bites, how to get in around venomous anything.

A black snake can bite you just as bad as a white snake

You can’t talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.

We have no Common Vipers in the United States, but we have worse.

The bohar snapper - they have these huge canines. I got bit by one. One took a chunk out of my ear - they are much scarier than the sharks.

I was learning to track rhinoceroses in Africa and tracked right up on an animal that really I thought was going to kill me.

There is no comparison. The American landscape is so much more dangerous. They have real snakes, mountain lions, bears; we only have adders, and they're more frightened of us than we are of them.

Once I was chased by the king of all scorpions. I have the most notorious animal stories.

You'd be surprised how many stupid mistakes I've made. I make stupid mistakes all the time, and some of them have been very big stupid mistakes.

I really think I like poisonous snakes.

I played soccer, and I was the kid who ran the wrong way, or I was pretending to be some sort of zebra and I would flail my arms and kick up my legs.

I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.

I haven't got enough sense not to pitch.

For the most part, I keep playing big knuckleheads who are like bulls in a china shop.

I shaved this morning for precisely that reason. I was like, 'Well, you never know when someone is going to clamp down on your calf and try to suck out the snake poison.

I just saw a guy filling up his gas tank with one hand and smoking with the other. Seriously?

I think the most alarming animals I have encountered are really poisonous snakes.

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.

Apparently, the the only way to kill a lion is by rear naked choke. Personally, I’d just kick it in the head.

A boy sent by his father to steal does not go stealthily but breaks the door with his feet.

The taipan is the one to watch out for. It is the most poisonous snake on Earth, with a lunge so swift and a venom so potent that your last mortal utterance is likely to be: "I say, is that a sn--

Error is ever the sequence of haste.