Quotes from Evel Knievel

I know guys in my hometown that drive by feel and sound.

The most important thing in life is, if you have a dream, I mean a real good dream, follow it.

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.

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

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.

The finest compliment you can pay a man is that his word was as good as gold.

I'm not a stunt man. I'm not a dare devil...I'm an explorer.

Nothing's worse than a guy who loses fair and square and then whines about it.

The Internal Revenue Service is more ruthless than the Gestapo. Abolish the IRS! Stamp out organized crime!

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.

If there is a heaven, I don't know anything else I can do to get there - and neither do you.

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.

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.

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

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 am a lucky, lucky person.

You're never a failure until you fail to get up.

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.