Evel Knievel

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

Anybody can jump a motorcycle. The trouble begins when you try to land it.

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

Harley-Davidson is the finest company in the world.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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 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 I coulda landed on a dime. I really do.

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

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.

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

I am a lucky, lucky person.

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

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

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

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.