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
If you don't know about pain and trouble, you're in sad shape. They make you appreciate life.
Bones heal, pain is temporary, and chicks dig scars
A man can fall many times in life, but he's never a failure until he refuses to get back up.
I can still crack a safe with one hand tied behind my back. I'm not proud of it. But I was always against society.
If there is a heaven, I don't know anything else I can do to get there - and neither do you.
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 wish there was such a thing as reincarnation.