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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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