Evel Knievel Quotes

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

I've been in a treatment center for drinkin'. I stayed for two days, then escaped.

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.

I can say the Lord's prayer in 10 seconds.

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.

When you're mad at someone, it's probably best not to break his arm with a baseball bat.

She (my ex-wife) wanted me to stop being Evel Knievel. I am who I am. I'm not going to change. I'll settle down the day they put me in a six-foot pine box.

I always knew how to draw a crowd.

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

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

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

If you fall during your life it doesn't matter because you're never a failure if you try to get up.

If it is possible, it is done. If it is impossible... it will be done.

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.

Risk is good. Not properly managing your risk is a dangerous leap.

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

When I hit that pavement at 70 or 80 mph those suits just ripped.

Where there is little risk, there is little reward.

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.

Anybody can jump a motorcycle. The trouble begins when you try to land it

I am a lucky, lucky person.

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.

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

I really think we should pass a law in every state, I don't care whether it takes the independence away from an old person or not. You shouldn't be driving a car if you're over the age of 80. Maybe even less than that.

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.

You're never a failure until you fail to get up.

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

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.

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.

Bones heal, pain is temporary, and chicks dig scars

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

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.

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

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.

You can't ask a guy like me why [I performed]. I really wanted to fly through the air. I was a daredevil, a performer. I loved the thrill, the money, the whole macho thing. All those things made me Evel Knievel. Sure, I was scared. You gotta be an ass not to be scared. But I beat the hell out of death.

My own judgment of how the world is gonna end is that there will be a country led by a madman that will build a nuclear bomb with so much force, so much power, that it will be dropped somewhere on the face of this earth and that the earth will lose its place.

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.

I think I coulda landed on a dime. I really do.

Harley-Davidson is the finest company in the world.

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

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

If a guy hasn't got any gamble in him- he isn't worth a crap.

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.