Quotes By Evel Knievel

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

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.

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

You know, I had a couple hundred jumps in my career, and I made most of them, but the ones they show over and over are the ones when I crashed.

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.

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.

Harley-Davidson is the finest company in the world.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I always knew how to draw a crowd.

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

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

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

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.

You can be famous for a lot of things. You can be a Nobel-prize winner. You can be the fattest guy in the world.

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

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.

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

I think I coulda landed on a dime. I really do.

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.

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

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