Evel Knievel Quotes & Sayings (Page 8)

“Marty Stanovich was an honorable man.”

“My failures had a lot to do with my fame. I created Evel Knievel, and then he sort of got away from me.”

“When I hit that pavement at 70 or 80 mph those suits just ripped.”

“You can be famous for a lot of things. You can be a Nobel-prize winner. You can be the fattest guy in the world.”

“Women are the root of all evil. I ought to know. I'm Evel.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“Breaks your heart when your son doesn't love you.”