Quotes By Evel Knievel

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I always knew how to draw a crowd.