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.

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

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!

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 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.

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.

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

My grandpa got me a set of Wilson clubs, Sam Snead models, when I was 12. Many years later, when I'd become well known, I got to know Sam, and we played a lot of golf together.

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

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.

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

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

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.'

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

You can't forbid children to do things that are available to them at every turn. God told Eve, 'Don't give the apple to Adam,' and look what happened. It's in our nature to want the things we see.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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 wish there was such a thing as reincarnation.

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

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

Harley-Davidson is the finest company in the world.

I always knew how to draw a crowd.

Marty Stanovich was an honorable man.

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