Evel Knievel
Evel Knievel
Robert Craig "Evel" Knievelwas an American stunt performer and entertainer. Over his career, he attempted more than 75 ramp-to-ramp motorcycle jumps, and, in 1974, a canyon jump across Snake River Canyonin the Skycycle X-2, a steam-powered rocket. During his career he suffered more than 433 bone fractures, earning an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records as the survivor of "most bones broken in a lifetime". Knievel was inducted into the Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 1999. Knievel died...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDaredevil
Date of Birth17 October 1938
CityButte, MT
CountryUnited States of America
We are awaiting a donor of a liver that will be a suitable match for my blood type, O positive, the most common type in this nation.
The Internal Revenue Service is more ruthless than the Gestapo. Abolish the IRS! Stamp out organized crime!
I'm better than P. T. Barnum and Colonel Parker put together.
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.
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.
I want to be the first. If they'd let me go to the moon, I'd crawl all the way to Cape Kennedy just to do it. I'd like to go to the moon, but I don't want to be the second man to go there.
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.
God made us. He's in charge of everything, right? If He didn't like us, why didn't he change us?
I can't keep track of my hospital time. It all sort of blurs together.
Titanic Thompson and Amarillo Slim would have run from a game with Marty Stanovich. Marty could really play, and he didn't cheat.
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.
I am not, never have been, and never will be a politician. But I want to tell you the United States has always been proud of having the support of the United Kingdom, of keeping Britain in Europe. We need Britain in Europe.