“Kids come up to me all the time and say, 'Once I was going through a r...” — Evel Knievel Quote

“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.'”

“Anybody can jump a motorcycle. The trouble begins when you try to land it.”

“The finest compliment you can pay a man is that his word was as good as gold.”

“Listen - pacemaker, crash, stroke. What does it mean? God doesn't want me now. That's all.”

“Until I was 16, I read nothing but science fiction. I loved William Gibson and I still do. But my favourite book when I was growing up, for a long time, was 'Snow Crash' by Neal Stephenson, which I must have read about a dozen times when I was a teenager.”

“I'm always up before everybody else. I also crash at 3 o'clock when everybody's at their prime.”