Evel Knievel
I recently have had a full hip replacement and a liver transplant, and I'm getting used to the medication.
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.
I went through life big-bang-banda-boom-bada-boom.
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.
You'd think a guy who has broken 35 bones in his body would have a high pain threshold, but mine is pretty low. I got hit in the shin with a golf ball once, and it almost brought tears to my eyes. I've had broken bones that didn't hurt as bad.
Titanic Thompson and Amarillo Slim would have run from a game with Marty Stanovich. Marty could really play, and he didn't cheat.
I always wanted to live to about 70. I thought that'd be a good age.
I learned one thing from jumping motorcycles that was of great value on the golf course, the putting green especially: Whatever you do, don't come up short.
Harley-Davidson is the finest company in the world.
If you look at the Bible almost everything that was predicted, maybe everything, has come to pass.
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.
I did everything by the seat of my pants. That's why I got hurt so much.
I know guys in my hometown that drive by feel and sound.
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.
I think I coulda landed on a dime. I really do.
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 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.
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.
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.
My wife and I, we like to ride where there's not much traffic.
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.
The Harley's got a little too much torque when it comes to jumping.
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.
When I hit that pavement at 70 or 80 mph those suits just ripped.
When you're mad at someone, it's probably best not to break his arm with a baseball bat.
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.
I created Evel Knievel, and then he sort of got away from me.
I always knew how to draw a crowd.
All my life people have been waiting around to watch me die.
Marty Stanovich was an honorable man.
The most important thing in life is, if you have a dream, I mean a real good dream, follow it.
I've always been concerned about kids - not just my own three, but all kids - what kind of an image I'm providing for them, what kind of inspiration. I don't know now. Maybe I'm leading them down the path to self-destruction.
Bones heal, pain is temporary, and chicks dig scarsCollection: Pain
A man can fall many times in life, but he's never a failure until he refuses to get back up.Collection: Fall
Anybody can jump a motorcycle. The trouble begins when you try to land itCollection: Land
Where there is little risk, there is little reward.Collection: Risk
If a guy hasn't got any gamble in him- he isn't worth a crap.Collection: Guy
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.Collection: Want
If it is possible, it is done. If it is impossible... it will be done.Collection: Done
If you fall during your life it doesn't matter because you're never a failure if you try to get up.Collection: Fall
I can say the Lord's prayer in 10 seconds.Collection: Prayer
I'm not a stunt man. I'm not a dare devil...I'm an explorer.Collection: Men
Risk is good. Not properly managing your risk is a dangerous leap.Collection: Risk
I would always rather be in the arena fighting than be a spectator.Collection: Fighting
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.Collection: Failure
You'd think a guy who has broken 35 bones in his body would have a high pain threshold, but mine is pretty low. I got hit in the shin with a golf ball once and it almost brought tears to my eyes. I've had broken bones that didn't hurt as bad.Collection: Hurt
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.Collection: Air
You're never a failure until you fail to get up.Collection: Failing