You'd think a guy who has broken 35 bones in his body would have a high pain threshold, but mine is pretty low. I got hit in the shin with a golf ball once, and it almost brought tears to my eyes. I've had broken bones that didn't hurt as bad.

I always wanted to live to about 70. I thought that'd be a good age.

Marty Stanovich was an honorable man.

I’ve always lived by the creed that you’re never a failure in life when you fall as long as you try and get up.

When you do what I do for a living you have to have a positive mental attitude; when that positive mental attitude isn’t enough to get you across that jump you have to be man enough to deal with the circumstances. In my case, I’m man enough.

The Harley’s got a little too much torque when it comes to jumping.

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

My wife and I, we like to ride where there’s not much traffic.

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.

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.