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Evel Knievel [1938-2007] American

Rank: 101
Entertainer, Stunt Performer

Robert Craig "Evel" Knievel was an American stunt performer and entertainer. Over his career, he attempted more than 75 ramp-to-ramp motorcycle jumps, and, in 1974, a canyon jump across Snake River Canyon in the Skycycle X-2, a steam-powered rocket.

Famous, Attitude, Car, Failure, Independence, Knowledge, Life, Love, Men, Sad, Women

Quote	Tags	Rank
I decided to fly through the air and live in the sunlight and enjoy life as much as I could.	Life	101
I love the feeling of the fresh air on my face and the wind blowing through my hair.	Love	102
If you don't know about pain and trouble, you're in sad shape. They make you appreciate life.	Sad	103
But you come to a point in your life when you can't pull the trigger anymore.		104
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.		105
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.		106
Women are the root of all evil. I ought to know. I'm Evel.	Women	107
If there is a heaven, I don't know anything else I can do to get there - and neither do you.		108
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.	Attitude	109
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.	Famous, Men	110
Anybody can jump a motorcycle. The trouble begins when you try to land it.		111
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.		112
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.	Knowledge	113
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.		114
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.		115
My life has been being a daredevil. I am Evel Knievel. I am a daredevil.		116
If you fall during your life, it doesn't matter. You're never a failure as long as you try to get up.	Failure	117
The most important thing in life is, if you have a dream, I mean a real good dream, follow it.		118
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.		119
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.		120
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.		121
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.		122
I know guys in my hometown that drive by feel and sound.		123
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.'		124
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.		125
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.		126
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.		201
When you're mad at someone, it's probably best not to break his arm with a baseball bat.		202
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.		203
Titanic Thompson and Amarillo Slim would have run from a game with Marty Stanovich. Marty could really play, and he didn't cheat.		204
I wish there was such a thing as reincarnation.		205
A motorcycle coming down from 30 feet at 70 mph gives you a terrible jolt.		206
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.		207
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.		208
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.		209
I'm better than P. T. Barnum and Colonel Parker put together.		210
The Internal Revenue Service is more ruthless than the Gestapo. Abolish the IRS! Stamp out organized crime!		211
I did everything by the seat of my pants. That's why I got hurt so much.		212
You can't say you're going to jump the Grand Canyon and then jump some other canyon.		213
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.		214
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.		215
I can't keep track of my hospital time. It all sort of blurs together.		216
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.		217
The finest compliment you can pay a man is that his word was as good as gold.		218
I am a lucky, lucky person.		219
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.		220
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.		221
Harley-Davidson is the finest company in the world.		222
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.		223
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.		224
I thought I was bulletproof or Superman there for a while. I thought I'd never run out of nerve. Never.		225
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.		226
I created Evel Knievel, and then he sort of got away from me.		301
I always knew how to draw a crowd.		302
I went through life big-bang-banda-boom-bada-boom.		303
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.		304
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!		305
God made us. He's in charge of everything, right? If He didn't like us, why didn't he change us?		306
I don't have any problems in life, just situations.		307
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.		308
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.		309
My failures had a lot to do with my fame. I created Evel Knievel, and then he sort of got away from me.		310
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.		311
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.	Car, Independence	312
I recently have had a full hip replacement and a liver transplant, and I'm getting used to the medication.		313
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.		314
I've been in a treatment center for drinkin'. I stayed for two days, then escaped.		315
The Harley's got a little too much torque when it comes to jumping.		316
When I hit that pavement at 70 or 80 mph those suits just ripped.		317
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.	Famous	318
All my life people have been waiting around to watch me die.		319
Marty Stanovich was an honorable man.		320
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.		321
I always wanted to live to about 70. I thought that'd be a good age.		322
There's just no stopping me. I went through life big-bang-banda-boom-bada-boom.		323
Sometimes I keep a car for only a week or two. I like the newest and the flashiest.		324
I play golf five days a week. I find that if I play seven days a week, I get stale.		325
I'm not only the best-known daredevil on the face of the earth, I'm the oldest.		326
Nothing's worse than a guy who loses fair and square and then whines about it.		401
I think I coulda landed on a dime. I really do.		402
If you look at the Bible almost everything that was predicted, maybe everything, has come to pass.		403
My wife and I, we like to ride where there's not much traffic.		404
Breaks your heart when your son doesn't love you.		405
I went through high school, but I didn't graduate.		406

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