Quotes from Evel Knievel

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I recently have had a full hip replacement and a liver transplant, and I'm getting used to the medication.

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.

I've been in a treatment center for drinkin'. I stayed for two days, then escaped.

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 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.

You can't say you're going to jump the Grand Canyon and then jump some other canyon.

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.

I think I coulda landed on a dime. I really do.

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

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.