Evel Knievel Quotes

I am a guy who is first of all a businessman. I'm not a stunt man. I'm not a daredevil. I'm - I'm an explorer.

Bones heal, pain is temporary, and chicks dig scars

All my life people have been waiting around to watch me die.

I think these shows with the young kids doing these jumps, doing these fantastic back flips, I think they're absolutely great. They did what I never did.

I play golf five days a week. I find that if I play seven days a week, I get stale.

I don't have any problems in life, just situations.

My wife and I, we like to ride where there's not much traffic.

Where there is little risk, there is little reward.

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.

No prince, no king, no president has ever lived a better life than I have!

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.

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.

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.

I went through life big-bang-banda-boom-bada-boom.

I know guys in my hometown that drive by feel and sound.

I decided to fly through the air and live in the sunlight and enjoy life as much as I could.

The most important thing in life is, if you have a dream, I mean a real good dream, follow it.

Women are the root of all evil. I ought to know. I'm Evel.

But you come to a point in your life when you can't pull the trigger anymore.

Titanic Thompson and Amarillo Slim would have run from a game with Marty Stanovich. Marty could really play, and he didn't cheat.

I love the feeling of the fresh air on my face and the wind blowing through my hair.

Marty Stanovich was an honorable man.

You'd think a guy who has broken 35 bones in his body would have a high pain threshold, but mine is pretty low. I got hit in the shin with a golf ball once, and it almost brought tears to my eyes. I've had broken bones that didn't hurt as bad.

If you don't know about pain and trouble, you're in sad shape. They make you appreciate life.

In the old days they, the promoters, wanted more and more from me. They wanted me to jump or spill my blood and break my bones. Every time they wanted me to jump further, and further, and further. Hell, they thought my bike had wings.

I wish there was such a thing as reincarnation.

I like to help kids, work with kids in detention homes. Don't tell a kid what's right and wrong. He knows what's right and wrong. Find out what his attitude and his aptitude are; try to help him where he wants to go.

You know, I had a couple hundred jumps in my career, and I made most of them, but the ones they show over and over are the ones when I crashed.

I did everything by the seat of my pants. That's why I got hurt so much.

The finest compliment you can pay a man is that his word was as good as gold.

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.

Harley-Davidson is the finest company in the world.

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'm not a stunt man. I'm not a dare devil ... I'm an explorer.

If there is a heaven, I don't know anything else I can do to get there - and neither do you.

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.

Those extreme-sports kids today are good, but they have it easy. Try falling off of a motorcycle going 70 or 80 miles per hour on asphalt. Believe me, nothing equals it.

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.

I always knew how to draw a crowd.

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!

When you do what I do for a living you have to have a positive mental attitude; when that positive mental attitude isn't enough to get you across that jump you have to be man enough to deal with the circumstances. In my case, I'm man enough.

I've always lived by the creed that you're never a failure in life when you fall as long as you try and get up.

I always wanted to live to about 70. I thought that'd be a good age.

I can't keep track of my hospital time. It all sort of blurs together.

A motorcycle coming down from 30 feet at 70 mph gives you a terrible jolt.

A man can fall many times in life, but he's never a failure until he refuses to get back up.

I want to be the first. If they'd let me go to the moon, I'd crawl all the way to Cape Kennedy just to do it. I'd like to go to the moon, but I don't want to be the second man to go there.

I recently have had a full hip replacement and a liver transplant, and I'm getting used to the medication.

I thought I was bulletproof or Superman there for a while. I thought I'd never run out of nerve. Never.

My life has been being a daredevil. I am Evel Knievel. I am a daredevil.

If you fall during your life, it doesn't matter. You're never a failure as long as you try to get up.

If you look at the Bible almost everything that was predicted, maybe everything, has come to pass.

If I'm out trailriding, I have a favorite motorcycle. Riding on the road, I've got a favorite. If I'm jumping, I have a favorite, and if I'm racing, I have a favorite.

I created Evel Knievel, and then he sort of got away from me.

It's easy to be famous today. People pay a million dollars to be recognized, but nobody cares about them. They cared about me because I did things other men were afraid to do. That's why my fans identified with me. They were mostly working-class.