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.

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

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

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.'

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.