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

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.

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

I always knew how to draw a crowd.

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

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

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.