142 Quotes by Evel Knievel

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

Where there is little risk, there is little reward.

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

If a guy hasn't got any gamble in him- he isn't worth a crap.

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.

Bones heal, pain is temporary, and chicks dig scars

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.

A man can fall many times in life, but he's never a failure until he refuses to get back up.

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.