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
Buddy puts his nose to the ground and gets things done. He came up the hard way, and nobody gave anything to him. I have lots of respect for him for that.
The other thing I wanted but never got to do had something to do with Liz Taylor but she's getting a little old and a little fat.
Where there is little risk, there is little reward.
Anybody can jump a motorcycle. The trouble begins when you try to land it
I foresee the Chinese ruling the world. What are you going to do to stop it? No president of the United States will ever have enough power to stop the Chinese when they want to take over the world.
When I hit that pavement at 70 or 80 mph those suits just ripped.
I always knew how to draw a crowd.
No prince, no king, no president has ever lived a better life than I have!
But you come to a point in your life when you can't pull the trigger anymore.
All my life people have been waiting around to watch me die.
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.
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.