Quotes from Evel Knievel

I did everything by the seat of my pants. That's why I got hurt so much.

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

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

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.

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.

Breaks your heart when your son doesn't love you.

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!

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.

God made us. He's in charge of everything, right? If He didn't like us, why didn't he change us?

I thought I was bulletproof or Superman there for a while. I thought I'd never run out of nerve. Never.

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

I always knew how to draw a crowd.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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