I love the feeling of the fresh air on my face and the wind blowing through my hair.
Evel Knievel
I decided to fly through the air and live in the sunlight and enjoy life as much as I could.
Anybody can jump a motorcycle. The trouble begins when you try to land it.
If you don't know about pain and trouble, you're in sad shape. They make you appreciate life.
Riding a motorcycle on today's highways, you have to ride in a very defensive manner. You have to be a good rider and you have to have both hands and both feet on the controls at all times.
You are the master of your own ship, pal. There are lots of people who fall into troubled waters and don't have the guts or the knowledge or the ability to make it to shore. They have nobody to blame but themselves.
You come to a point in your life when you really don't care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself.
Women are the root of all evil. I ought to know. I'm Evel.
I don't have any problems in life, just situations.
I guess I thought I was Elvis Presley but I'll tell ya something. All Elvis did was stand on a stage and play a guitar. He never fell off on that pavement at no 80 mph.
The most important thing in life is, if you have a dream, I mean a real good dream, follow it.
Nothing's worse than a guy who loses fair and square and then whines about it.
If you fall during your life, it doesn't matter. You're never a failure as long as you try to get up.
You can't say you're going to jump the Grand Canyon and then jump some other canyon.
I am a lucky, lucky person.
I think if you have ability and talent in one way, you have it in all ways. I'm not a jack of all trades; I'm a master of many. I don't feel there is anything I can't do if I want to.
I recently have had a full hip replacement and a liver transplant, and I'm getting used to the medication.
Titanic Thompson and Amarillo Slim would have run from a game with Marty Stanovich. Marty could really play, and he didn't cheat.
I created Evel Knievel, and then he sort of got away from me.
I did everything by the seat of my pants. That's why I got hurt so much.
I play golf five days a week. I find that if I play seven days a week, I get stale.
But you come to a point in your life when you can't pull the trigger anymore.
The Harley's got a little too much torque when it comes to jumping.
I think I coulda landed on a dime. I really do.
Marty Stanovich was an honorable man.
Unless we do things in this country to slow down our population, slow down our birth control, provide better water for people, provide power for people, we're gonna find out that the next wars are not going to be fought over diamonds, gold and political things.
The Internal Revenue Service is more ruthless than the Gestapo. Abolish the IRS! Stamp out organized crime!
I guess I'm like any other concerned father, except that nobody else's son guns a cycle over 17 pickups without holding on to the handlebars.
When I hit that pavement at 70 or 80 mph those suits just ripped.
I think through education, belief in God, and good engineering, our children become a lot better at what they're doing than we did, and that starts with the very first sign of life on the face of this earth.
A motorcycle coming down from 30 feet at 70 mph gives you a terrible jolt.
I have my tombstone already. A tombstone company in the East gave it to me when I jumped Snake Canyon. My plot is in Montana.
All my life people have been waiting around to watch me die.
I've always been concerned about kids - not just my own three, but all kids - what kind of an image I'm providing for them, what kind of inspiration. I don't know now. Maybe I'm leading them down the path to self-destruction.
Kids come up to me all the time and say, 'Once I was going through a really bad time, and I saw you crash and get up, and it inspired me.'
I am not, never have been, and never will be a politician. But I want to tell you the United States has always been proud of having the support of the United Kingdom, of keeping Britain in Europe. We need Britain in Europe.
If there is a heaven, I don't know anything else I can do to get there - and neither do you.
There's just no stopping me. I went through life big-bang-banda-boom-bada-boom.
When you're mad at someone, it's probably best not to break his arm with a baseball bat.
I learned one thing from jumping motorcycles that was of great value on the golf course, the putting green especially: Whatever you do, don't come up short.
The finest compliment you can pay a man is that his word was as good as gold.
I always knew how to draw a crowd.
This is a year and a few months after the transplant. Before I had it my doctors told me that it would be the biggest thing that I ever had to face and believe me, when they take your liver out of ya and put another one in it's like replacing a football in your stomach.
I don't know what in the world happened. I don't know if it was the power of the prayer or God himself, but it just reached out, either while I was driving or walking down the sidewalk or sleeping, and it just - the power of God in Jesus just grabbed me... All of a sudden, I just believed in Jesus Christ. I did, I believed in him!
Prison was tough on me. I saw people in prison that made me ashamed I was a human being. Some make Qaddafi and Idi Amin look like Sunday-school teachers.
I'm better than P. T. Barnum and Colonel Parker put together.
I know that I'm very lucky to be alive. For 35 or 40 years I've spilt my blood and broke my bones and spent years in hospitals.
There are a lot of myths about my injuries. They say I have broken every bone in my body. Not true. But I have broken 35 bones. I had surgery 14 times to pin and plate. I shattered my pelvis. I forget all of the things that have broke.
I foresee the Chinese ruling the world. What are you going to do to stop it? No president of the United States will ever have enough power to stop the Chinese when they want to take over the world.
I know guys in my hometown that drive by feel and sound.
