Top 55 Evel Knievel Quotes

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

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 am a lucky, lucky person.

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

Titanic Thompson and Amarillo Slim would have run from a game with Marty Stanovich. Marty could really play, and he didn’t cheat.

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.

If there is a heaven, I don’t know anything else I can do to get there – and neither do you.

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 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.

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

I always knew how to draw a crowd.

I’m better than P. T. Barnum and Colonel Parker put together.

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.

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.

I don’t have any problems in life, just situations.

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.

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.

If you fall during your life, it doesn’t matter. You’re never a failure as long as you try to get up.

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.

God made us. He’s in charge of everything, right? If He didn’t like us, why didn’t he change us?

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.

I’m not only the best-known daredevil on the face of the earth, I’m the oldest.

My life has been being a daredevil. I am Evel Knievel. I am a daredevil.

I always wanted to live to about 70. I thought that’d be a good age.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 went through high school, but I didn’t graduate.

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

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.

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

You can’t say you’re going to jump the Grand Canyon and then jump some other canyon.

The Internal Revenue Service is more ruthless than the Gestapo. Abolish the IRS! Stamp out organized crime!

Nothing’s worse than a guy who loses fair and square and then whines about it.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.’

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 have my tombstone already. A tombstone company in the East gave it to me when I jumped Snake Canyon. My plot is in Montana.

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.

I wish there was such a thing as reincarnation.

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

Breaks your heart when your son doesn’t love you.

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.

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

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 decided to fly through the air and live in the sunlight and enjoy life as much as I could.