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.

— Evel Knievel

Evel Knievel Quotes

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.

— Evel Knievel

I went through life big-bang-banda-boom-bada-boom.

— Evel Knievel

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.

— Evel Knievel

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.

— Evel Knievel

I think I coulda landed on a dime. I really do.

— Evel Knievel

I’ve been in a treatment center for drinkin’. I stayed for two days, then escaped.

— Evel Knievel

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.

— Evel Knievel

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

— Evel Knievel

All my life people have been waiting around to watch me die.

— Evel Knievel

I recently have had a full hip replacement and a liver transplant, and I’m getting used to the medication.

— Evel Knievel

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.

— Evel Knievel

I can say the Lord’s prayer in 10 seconds.

— Evel Knievel

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.

— Evel Knievel

Unless we do things in this country to slow down our population, slow down our birth control, provide better water for people, provide power for people, we’re gonna find out that the next wars are not going to be fought over diamonds, gold and political things.

— Evel Knievel

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.

— Evel Knievel

My own judgment of how the world is gonna end is that there will be a country led by a madman that will build a nuclear bomb with so much force, so much power, that it will be dropped somewhere on the face of this earth and that the earth will lose its place.

— Evel Knievel

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

— Evel Knievel

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.

— Evel Knievel

I know guys in my hometown that drive by feel and sound.

— Evel Knievel

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

— Evel Knievel
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