Quotes By Evel Knievel

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.

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.

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 always knew how to draw a crowd.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

Women are the root of all evil. I ought to know. I'm Evel.

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

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

I am a lucky, lucky person.

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.

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.