Evel Knievel Quotes

• 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.

  Evel Knievel

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Yourself, Think

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

  Evel Knievel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pavement, Self

• 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.

  Evel Knievel

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Population, People

• 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.

  Evel Knievel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Doctors, Transplant, Believe, Liver

• 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.

  Evel Knievel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Myths, Body, Bone, Surgery

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

  Evel Knievel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Torque, Harley

• 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.

  Evel Knievel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rider, Controls, Highways

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

  Evel Knievel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Like, Wife, Ride

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in World, Judgment, Earth

• 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.

  Evel Knievel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Promoters, Blood, Thought

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

  Evel Knievel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Bible, Predicted, Everything

• 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.

  Evel Knievel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Favorite, Racing, Self

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

  Evel Knievel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Treatment, Self

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

  Evel Knievel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Thought, Self

• 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.

  Evel Knievel

  Topics in Belief, Education, God

  Tags in Think, Self

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

  Evel Knievel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, Dime, Self

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

  Evel Knievel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Liver, Transplant, Medication

• 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.

  Evel Knievel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Think, Independence

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

  Evel Knievel

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Feeling, Self

• 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.

  Evel Knievel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Lucky, Hospitals

Evel Knievel (27)

Birth:	17th October, 1938
Death:	30th November, 2007
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Entertainer, Painter, Stunt Performer

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