Women are the root of all evil. I ought to know. I'm Evel. 
A man can fall many times in life, but he's never a failure until he refuses to get back up. 
I thought I was bulletproof or Superman there for a while. I thought I'd never run out of nerve. Never. 
I know guys in my hometown that drive by feel and sound. 
Bones heal, pain is temporary, and chicks dig scars 
All my life people have been waiting around to watch me die. 
If there is a heaven, I don't know anything else I can do to get there - and neither do you. 
Risk is good. Not properly managing your risk is a dangerous leap. 
I wish there was such a thing as reincarnation. 
Anybody can jump a motorcycle. The trouble begins when you try to land it. 
Where there is little risk, there is little reward. 
When you're mad at someone, it's probably best not to break his arm with a baseball bat. 
If you look at the Bible almost everything that was predicted, maybe everything, has come to pass. 
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. 
The most important thing in life is, if you have a dream, I mean a real good dream, follow it. 
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 would always rather be in the arena fighting than be a spectator. 
I decided to fly through the air and live in the sunlight and enjoy life as much as I could. 
You're never a failure until you fail to get up. 
Breaks your heart when your son doesn't love you. 
If you fall during your life, it doesn't matter. You're never a failure as long as you try to get up. 
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. 
A motorcycle coming down from 30 feet at 70 mph gives you a terrible jolt. 
If you don't know about pain and trouble, you're in sad shape. They make you appreciate life. 
If it is possible, it is done. If it is impossible ... it will be done. 
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. 
My life has been being a daredevil. I am Evel Knievel. I am a daredevil. 
I recently have had a full hip replacement and a liver transplant, and I'm getting used to the medication. 
I can't keep track of my hospital time. It all sort of blurs together. 
I'm better than P. T. Barnum and Colonel Parker put together. 
I don't have any problems in life, just situations. 
I went through high school, but I didn't graduate. 
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. 
The Internal Revenue Service is more ruthless than the Gestapo. Abolish the IRS! Stamp out organized crime! 
Titanic Thompson and Amarillo Slim would have run from a game with Marty Stanovich. Marty could really play, and he didn't cheat. 
No prince, no king, no president has ever lived a better life than I have! 
But you come to a point in your life when you can't pull the trigger anymore. 
You can't say you're going to jump the Grand Canyon and then jump some other canyon. 
The Harley's got a little too much torque when it comes to jumping. 
I did everything by the seat of my pants. That's why I got hurt so much. 
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.' 
The finest compliment you can pay a man is that his word was as good as gold. 
I play golf five days a week. I find that if I play seven days a week, I get stale. 
God made us. He's in charge of everything, right? If He didn't like us, why didn't he change us? 
Harley-Davidson is the finest company in the world. 
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. 
I went through life big-bang-banda-boom-bada-boom. 