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 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.

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

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

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

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

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