142 Quotes by Evel Knievel

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.

This is a year and a few months after the transplant. Before I had it my doctors told me that it would be the biggest thing that I ever had to face and believe me, when they take your liver out of ya and put another one in it's like replacing a football in your stomach.

I thought I was bulletproof or Superman there for a while. I thought I'd never run out of nerve. Never.

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

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

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.

My failures had a lot to do with my fame. I created Evel Knievel, and then he sort of got away from me.

You can't say you're going to jump the Grand Canyon and then jump some other canyon.