Evel Knievel famous quotes

If you don't know about pain and trouble, you're in sad shape. They make you appreciate life.
-- Evel Knievel

#Hurt #Pain #Appreciate

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

#Guy #Crap

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.
-- Evel Knievel

#Hands #Feet #Motorcycle

I would always rather be in the arena fighting than be a spectator.
-- Evel Knievel

#Fighting #Arena #Spectators

Bones heal, pain is temporary, and chicks dig scars
-- Evel Knievel

#Pain #Scar #Bones

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

#Failing

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.
-- Evel Knievel

#Thinking #People #Care

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

#Fall #Men #Refuse

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

#Mph #Pavement #Suits

I love the feeling of the fresh air on my face and the wind blowing through my hair.
-- Evel Knievel

#Hair #Wind #Feelings

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

#Hurt #Pants #Hurt Feelings

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

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.
-- Evel Knievel

#Men #People #Fans

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

#Land #Motorcycle #Trying

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.
-- Evel Knievel

#Jumping #Racing #Motorcycle

I don't have any problems in life, just situations.
-- Evel Knievel

#Problem #Situation #Problems In Life

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

#Men #Gold #Pay

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.
-- Evel Knievel

#Blood #Years #Lucky

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.
-- Evel Knievel

#Retirement #Who I Am #Feet

I know guys in my hometown that drive by feel and sound.
-- Evel Knievel

#Guy #Sound #Hometown

My wife and I, we like to ride where there's not much traffic.
-- Evel Knievel

#Wife #Traffic #My Wife

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.
-- Evel Knievel

#Country #Nuclear #Bombs

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.
-- Evel Knievel

#Want #Masters #Trade

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

#Kings #President #Moderation

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.'
-- Evel Knievel

#Inspirational #Kids #Saws

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

#Risk #Dangerous #Leap

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.
-- Evel Knievel

#Blood #Wings #Bones

Harley-Davidson is the finest company in the world.
-- Evel Knievel

#World #Finest #Harley

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.
-- Evel Knievel

#Chinese #President #United States

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

#Hips #Replacements #Used

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

#Running #Nerves #Bulletproof

The Harley's got a little too much torque when it comes to jumping.
-- Evel Knievel

#Jumping #Littles #Too Much

I think I coulda landed on a dime. I really do.
-- Evel Knievel

#Thinking #Dimes

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.
-- Evel Knievel

#Birthday #Thinking #Law

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.
-- Evel Knievel

#Kids #Thinking #Flip

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

#Looks

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.
-- Evel Knievel

#Children #Thinking #Engineering

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.
-- Evel Knievel

#Redneck #Mph #Guitar

I always knew how to draw a crowd.
-- Evel Knievel

#Crowds #Draws

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.
-- Evel Knievel

#Football #Believe #Doctors

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

#Two #Treatment

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

#Baseball #Mad #Bats

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.
-- Evel Knievel

#Country #War #People

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

#Triggers

I am a lucky, lucky person.
-- Evel Knievel

#Lucky #Persons

There are a lot of myths about my injuries. They say I have broken every bone in my body. Not true. But I have broken 35 bones. I had surgery 14 times to pin and plate. I shattered my pelvis. I forget all of the things that have broke.
-- Evel Knievel

#Broken #Body #Bones

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 ***** not to be scared. But I beat the hell out of death.
-- Evel Knievel

#Air #Guy #Thrill

Where there is little risk, there is little reward.
-- Evel Knievel

#Risk #Littles #Rewards

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

#Age #Wanted

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

#Bangs #Bigs

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.
-- Evel Knievel

#Failure #Fall #Long

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

#Prayer #Lord

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

#Fall #Trying #Matter

All my life people have been waiting around to watch me die.
-- Evel Knievel

#People #Waiting #Watches