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

I'm not only the best-known daredevil on the face of the earth, I'm the oldest.

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.

Sometimes I keep a car for only a week or two. I like the newest and the flashiest.

God made us. He's in charge of everything, right? If He didn't like us, why didn't he change us?

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.

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.

When you're mad at someone, it's probably best not to break his arm with a baseball bat.

I'm better than P. T. Barnum and Colonel Parker put together.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I like to help kids, work with kids in detention homes. Don't tell a kid what's right and wrong. He knows what's right and wrong. Find out what his attitude and his aptitude are; try to help him where he wants to go.

My life has been being a daredevil. I am Evel Knievel. I am a daredevil.

Prison was tough on me. I saw people in prison that made me ashamed I was a human being. Some make Qaddafi and Idi Amin look like Sunday-school teachers.

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.'

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

If there is a heaven, I don't know anything else I can do to get there - and neither do you.

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.

If you look at the Bible almost everything that was predicted, maybe everything, has come to pass.

My grandpa got me a set of Wilson clubs, Sam Snead models, when I was 12. Many years later, when I'd become well known, I got to know Sam, and we played a lot of golf together.