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

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.

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.

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.

But you come to a point in your life when you can't pull the trigger anymore.

Harley-Davidson is the finest company in the world.

I am a lucky, lucky person.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

If I'm out trailriding, I have a favorite motorcycle. Riding on the road, I've got a favorite. If I'm jumping, I have a favorite, and if I'm racing, I have a favorite.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

When I hit that pavement at 70 or 80 mph those suits just ripped.

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.

Women are the root of all evil. I ought to know. I'm Evel.

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

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.

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

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.

I created Evel Knievel, and then he sort of got away from me.

I always knew how to draw a crowd.

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 went through life big-bang-banda-boom-bada-boom.

All my life people have been waiting around to watch me die.

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

Titanic Thompson and Amarillo Slim would have run from a game with Marty Stanovich. Marty could really play, and he didn't cheat.

Marty Stanovich was an honorable man.

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

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

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.

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

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!

I wish there was such a thing as reincarnation.

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.

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

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

I always wanted to live to about 70. I thought that'd be a good age.

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

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

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

I don't have any problems in life, just situations.

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.

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

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 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 went through high school, but I didn't graduate.

I like to help kids, work with kids in detention homes. Don't tell a kid what's right and wrong. He knows what's right and wrong. Find out what his attitude and his aptitude are; try to help him where he wants to go.

Sometimes I keep a car for only a week or two. I like the newest and the flashiest.

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 have my tombstone already. A tombstone company in the East gave it to me when I jumped Snake Canyon. My plot is in Montana.

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.

I can still crack a safe with one hand tied behind my back. I'm not proud of it. But I was always against society.

It's easy to be famous today. 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. They were mostly working-class.

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

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.'

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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