I didn't invent the fear of sharks; it's as old as mankind, and that - to take that responsibility would mean that Mario Puzo should take the blame for the Mafia.

It is not that I don't have a fear of sharks, it is that I have a respect for them, so that I know any more than if I were to go into the jungle, I would have a fear of tigers, that I would try to lower the odds.

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

Sharks don't target human beings, and they certainly don't hold grudges.

I believe implicitly that every young man in the world is fascinated with either sharks or dinosaurs.

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.