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Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Feeling
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Never
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Hell
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Broken
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Point
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Finest
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Nov 07, 2020

Harley-Davidson is the finest company in the world.

Lucky
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Nov 07, 2020

I am a lucky, lucky person.

Hurt
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Nov 07, 2020

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.

Feel
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Blood
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Car
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Liver
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Nov 07, 2020

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

I Think
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Great
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

God
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Never
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Center
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Nov 07, 2020

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.

Bible
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Face
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Nov 07, 2020

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

Nov 07, 2020

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.

Jumping
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Face
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

People
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Just
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Nov 07, 2020

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

People
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Know
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Mad
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Nov 07, 2020

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.

Pain
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Men
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Got
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Crowd
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Nov 07, 2020

I always knew how to draw a crowd.

Know
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Nov 07, 2020

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

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

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

I Am
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Nov 07, 2020

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

He
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Man
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Nov 07, 2020

Marty Stanovich was an honorable man.

Life
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Important
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Down
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Put
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Grabbed
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Nov 07, 2020

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!

Nov 07, 2020

I wish there was such a thing as reincarnation.

Mother
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Everything
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Nov 07, 2020

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

I Can
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Always
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Life
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Feet
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Nov 07, 2020

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

Just
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Love
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Feel
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

High School
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Go
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Like
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Never
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Good
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Proud
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Men
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Fame
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

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.'

Motorcycle
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Keep
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Man
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Like
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Find
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Fly
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Earth
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Nov 07, 2020

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

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