Evel Knievel

“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.”

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

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

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

“I can't keep track of my hospital time. It all sort of blurs together.”

“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'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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“There's just no stopping me. I went through life big-bang-banda-boom-bada-boom.”

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

“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!”

“My failures had a lot to do with my fame. I created Evel Knievel, and then he sort of got away from me.”

“I wish there was such a thing as reincarnation.”

“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.”