Evel Knievel Quotes

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Evel Knievel

Profession : Entertainer

Birth : October 17, 1938

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

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

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

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You are the master of your own ship, pal. There are lots of people who fall into troubled waters and don't have the guts or the knowledge or the ability to make it to shore. They have nobody to blame but themselves.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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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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.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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