Zitat des Tages von Evel Knievel:
I learned one thing from jumping motorcycles that was of great value on the golf course, the putting green especially: Whatever you do, don't come up short.
I know guys in my hometown that drive by feel and sound.
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.
I recently have had a full hip replacement and a liver transplant, and I'm getting used to the medication.
All my life people have been waiting around to watch me die.
I think I coulda landed on a dime. I really do.
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.
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.
I always knew how to draw a crowd.
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.
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.
I thought I was bulletproof or Superman there for a while. I thought I'd never run out of nerve. Never.
I am a lucky, lucky person.
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.
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.
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.
I love the feeling of the fresh air on my face and the wind blowing through my hair.
I'm not only the best-known daredevil on the face of the earth, I'm the oldest.
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.
My wife and I, we like to ride where there's not much traffic.
The finest compliment you can pay a man is that his word was as good as gold.
I can't keep track of my hospital time. It all sort of blurs together.
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.
But you come to a point in your life when you can't pull the trigger anymore.
Harley-Davidson is the finest company in the world.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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 decided to fly through the air and live in the sunlight and enjoy life as much as I could.
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.
Anybody can jump a motorcycle. The trouble begins when you try to land it.
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.
The Harley's got a little too much torque when it comes to jumping.