35 Quotes by Jack Hanna

I had a very famous trainer tell me once, 'You can usually train a wild animal but never tame a wild animal, ever.' They are always going to be wild, no matter what anybody says.

We can't forget Pearl Harbor, but I'm afraid that we might. At one time we had some young people from some of the schools helping us out with the ceremony, and they didn't even know what Pearl Harbor was. That's so sad.

We have a little armadillo named David now. It's a true story - they bred right on his desk.

The buck has to stop here - from what I've seen, the new elephant exhibit is phenomenal.

They knew people so well. They communicated so well. They understood politics, especially patronage politics.

It's a close-knit sport, a family sport. That's why being here this weekend is special. This family - McCormick - is pretty legendary.

I must say that in the last 20 years, I don't know of one zoo visitor that has been killed or maimed that bad by an animal in the zoo. Obviously, as zookeepers, our job tends to be dangerous at times.

Wild animals are just as confused as people are now. You've got toxins in the water, oil, sewage, all sorts of things.

Zoo animals are ambassadors for their cousins in the wild.