Top 102 Quotes & Sayings by Evel Knievel - Page 2

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

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

All my life people have been waiting around to watch me die.

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

I created Evel Knievel, and then he sort of got away from me.

The finest compliment you can pay a man is that his word was as good as gold.

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

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

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 play golf five days a week. I find that if I play seven days a week, I get stale.

A motorcycle coming down from 30 feet at 70 mph gives you a terrible jolt.

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

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.

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.

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

Sometimes I keep a car for only a week or two. I like the newest and the flashiest.

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.

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

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

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 can still crack a safe with one hand tied behind my back. I'm not proud of it. But I was always against society.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Risk is good. Not properly managing your risk is a dangerous leap.

If it is possible, it is done. If it is impossible... it will be done.

No prince, no king, no president has ever lived a better life than I have!

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.

If you fall during your life it doesn't matter because you're never a failure if you try to get up.

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

You're never a failure until you fail to get up.

A man can fall many times in life, but he's never a failure until he refuses to get back up.

If a guy hasn't got any gamble in him- he isn't worth a crap.

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.

I would always rather be in the arena fighting than be a spectator.

Bones heal, pain is temporary, and chicks dig scars

I'm not a stunt man. I'm not a dare devil...I'm an explorer.

I can say the Lord's prayer in 10 seconds.

She (my ex-wife) wanted me to stop being Evel Knievel. I am who I am. I'm not going to change. I'll settle down the day they put me in a six-foot pine box.

Where there is little risk, there is little reward.