Evel Knievel

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If you don't know about pain and trouble, you're in sad shape. They make you appreciate life.
- Evel Knievel
Collection: Sad
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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.
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Collection: Independence
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You are the master of your own ship, pal. There are lots of people who fall into troubled waters and don't have the guts or the knowledge or the ability to make it to shore. They have nobody to blame but themselves.
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Collection: Knowledge
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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.
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Collection: Famous
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I love the feeling of the fresh air on my face and the wind blowing through my hair.
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Collection: Love
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Women are the root of all evil. I ought to know. I'm Evel.
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Collection: Women
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If you fall during your life, it doesn't matter. You're never a failure as long as you try to get up.
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Collection: Failure
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I like to help kids, work with kids in detention homes. Don't tell a kid what's right and wrong. He knows what's right and wrong. Find out what his attitude and his aptitude are; try to help him where he wants to go.
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Collection: Attitude
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I'm better than P. T. Barnum and Colonel Parker put together.
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I wish there was such a thing as reincarnation.
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The saddest thing is when a guy is paying so much attention to the world and everything going by that he can't take the time for his own mother.
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God made us. He's in charge of everything, right? If He didn't like us, why didn't he change us?
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If there is a heaven, I don't know anything else I can do to get there - and neither do you.
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There's just no stopping me. I went through life big-bang-banda-boom-bada-boom.
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A motorcycle coming down from 30 feet at 70 mph gives you a terrible jolt.
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I want to be the first. If they'd let me go to the moon, I'd crawl all the way to Cape Kennedy just to do it. I'd like to go to the moon, but I don't want to be the second man to go there.
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Breaks your heart when your son doesn't love you.
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I went through high school, but I didn't graduate.
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I am not, never have been, and never will be a politician. But I want to tell you the United States has always been proud of having the support of the United Kingdom, of keeping Britain in Europe. We need Britain in Europe.
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Those extreme-sports kids today are good, but they have it easy. Try falling off of a motorcycle going 70 or 80 miles per hour on asphalt. Believe me, nothing equals it.
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I can still crack a safe with one hand tied behind my back. I'm not proud of it. But I was always against society.
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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.'
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I can't keep track of my hospital time. It all sort of blurs together.
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I am a guy who is first of all a businessman. I'm not a stunt man. I'm not a daredevil. I'm - I'm an explorer.
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I guess I'm like any other concerned father, except that nobody else's son guns a cycle over 17 pickups without holding on to the handlebars.
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I play golf five days a week. I find that if I play seven days a week, I get stale.
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I'm not only the best-known daredevil on the face of the earth, I'm the oldest.
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The finest compliment you can pay a man is that his word was as good as gold.
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My grandpa got me a set of Wilson clubs, Sam Snead models, when I was 12. Many years later, when I'd become well known, I got to know Sam, and we played a lot of golf together.
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Nothing's worse than a guy who loses fair and square and then whines about it.
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You can't forbid children to do things that are available to them at every turn. God told Eve, 'Don't give the apple to Adam,' and look what happened. It's in our nature to want the things we see.
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I decided to fly through the air and live in the sunlight and enjoy life as much as I could.
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Anybody can jump a motorcycle. The trouble begins when you try to land it.
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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.
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I don't have any problems in life, just situations.
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I have my tombstone already. A tombstone company in the East gave it to me when I jumped Snake Canyon. My plot is in Montana.
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It's easy to be famous today. 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. They were mostly working-class.
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You can't say you're going to jump the Grand Canyon and then jump some other canyon.
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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.
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I think if you have ability and talent in one way, you have it in all ways. 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.
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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.
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My failures had a lot to do with my fame. I created Evel Knievel, and then he sort of got away from me.
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I don't know what in the world happened. I don't know if it was the power of the prayer or God himself, but it just reached out, either while I was driving or walking down the sidewalk or sleeping, and it just - the power of God in Jesus just grabbed me... All of a sudden, I just believed in Jesus Christ. I did, I believed in him!
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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.
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I am a lucky, lucky person.
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My life has been being a daredevil. I am Evel Knievel. I am a daredevil.
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I thought I was bulletproof or Superman there for a while. I thought I'd never run out of nerve. Never.
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The Internal Revenue Service is more ruthless than the Gestapo. Abolish the IRS! Stamp out organized crime!
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Sometimes I keep a car for only a week or two. I like the newest and the flashiest.
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Prison was tough on me. I saw people in prison that made me ashamed I was a human being. Some make Qaddafi and Idi Amin look like Sunday-school teachers.
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