A biography for Evel Knievelhasn’t been written yet.
“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.'”
“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.”
“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.”
“Breaks your heart when your son doesn't love you.”
“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.”
“All my life people have been waiting around to watch me die.”
“I always knew how to draw a crowd.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The finest compliment you can pay a man is that his word was as good as gold.”
“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.”
“Anybody can jump a motorcycle. The trouble begins when you try to land it.”
“God made us. He's in charge of everything, right? If He didn't like us, why didn't he change us?”
“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.”
“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.”
“Titanic Thompson and Amarillo Slim would have run from a game with Marty Stanovich. Marty could really play, and he didn't cheat.”
“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 don't have any problems in life, just situations.”
“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've been in a treatment center for drinkin'. I stayed for two days, then escaped.”