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Evel Knievel
American
Entertainer
Born:
Oct 17
,
1938
Died:
Nov 30
,
2007
Good
Life
Me
People
World
You
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I decided to fly through the air and live in the sunlight and enjoy life as much as I could.
Evel Knievel
Life
Enjoy Life
Fly
Live
Enjoy
Air
Sunlight
Could
Through
Decided
Much
You are the master of your own ship, pal. There are lots of people who fall into troubled waters and don't have the guts or the knowledge or the ability to make it to shore. They have nobody to blame but themselves.
Evel Knievel
Knowledge
You
Blame
People
Master
Fall
Own
Waters
Ability
Guts
Troubled
Nobody
Make
Ship
Lots
Shore
Themselves
Your
Who
Pal
You come to a point in your life when you really don't care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself.
Evel Knievel
Life
You
Yourself
People
Care
Think
About
Point
Come
dont Care
Just
Really
Your
Riding a motorcycle on today's highways, you have to ride in a very defensive manner. You have to be a good rider and you have to have both hands and both feet on the controls at all times.
Evel Knievel
Today
Good
Motorcycle
You
Ride
Defensive
Both
Highways
Feet
Very
Times
Hands
Controls
Manner
Rider
Riding
I don't have any problems in life, just situations.
Evel Knievel
Life
Problems
Any
Situations
Just
The most important thing in life is, if you have a dream, I mean a real good dream, follow it.
Evel Knievel
Life
Good
You
Important
Dream
Follow
Most
Most Important Thing
Important Thing
Real
The Most Important
Mean
Thing
If you fall during your life, it doesn't matter. You're never a failure as long as you try to get up.
Evel Knievel
Life
Failure
You
Matter
Try
Long
Fall
Never
Up
Get
Your
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.
Evel Knievel
Today
Good
Motorcycle
Me
Try
Nothing
Believe
Those
Kids
Easy
Per
Hour
Equals
Falling
Off
Going
Miles
I recently have had a full hip replacement and a liver transplant, and I'm getting used to the medication.
Evel Knievel
Had
Hip
Replacement
Getting
Full
Used
Transplant
Liver
Medication
Recently
Women are the root of all evil. I ought to know. I'm Evel.
Evel Knievel
Women
Evil
Ought
Know
Women Are
Root
I think through education, belief in God, and good engineering, our children become a lot better at what they're doing than we did, and that starts with the very first sign of life on the face of this earth.
Evel Knievel
Life
Education
God
Good
Better
Face
First
Become
Engineering
Think
Starts
Our
Earth
Sign
Through
Doing
Lot
Very
Than
Did
Children
Belief
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.
Evel Knievel
Me
Snake
Gave
Montana
East
Plot
Canyon
Company
Tombstone
The Internal Revenue Service is more ruthless than the Gestapo. Abolish the IRS! Stamp out organized crime!
Evel Knievel
Service
Crime
Out
Abolish
More
Ruthless
Revenue
Than
Gestapo
IRS
Stamp
Organized
Internal
It's easy to be famous today. People pay a million dollars to be recognized, but nobody cares about them. They cared about me because I did things other men were afraid to do. That's why my fans identified with me. They were mostly working-class.
Evel Knievel
Today
Me
People
Fans
Men
Nobody Cares
Pay
Other
Cares
Recognized
Easy
About
Nobody
Identified
Mostly
Because
Were
Dollars
Did
Afraid
Famous
Them
Working-Class
Why
Million
Things
Million Dollars
Cared
The finest compliment you can pay a man is that his word was as good as gold.
Evel Knievel
Good
You
Man
Word
Pay
Compliment
Finest
His
Gold
The Harley's got a little too much torque when it comes to jumping.
Evel Knievel
Too Much
Too
Got
Jumping
Little
Much
Harley
I'm better than P. T. Barnum and Colonel Parker put together.
Evel Knievel
Together
Better
Colonel
Parker
Put
Than
I can't keep track of my hospital time. It all sort of blurs together.
Evel Knievel
Time
Together
Hospital
Track
Sort
Keep
I thought I was bulletproof or Superman there for a while. I thought I'd never run out of nerve. Never.
Evel Knievel
Thought
Superman
Out
Run
Nerve
Never
Bulletproof
While
People pay a million dollars to be recognized, but nobody cares about them. They cared about me because I did things other men were afraid to do. That's why my fans identified with me.
Evel Knievel
Me
People
Fans
Men
Nobody Cares
Pay
Other
Cares
Recognized
About
Nobody
Identified
Because
Were
Dollars
Did
Afraid
Them
Why
Million
Things
Million Dollars
Cared
All my life people have been waiting around to watch me die.
Evel Knievel
Life
Me
Waiting
People
My Life
All My Life
Around
Been
Die
Watch
But you come to a point in your life when you can't pull the trigger anymore.
Evel Knievel
Life
You
Trigger
Point
Come
Anymore
Your
Pull
I like to help kids, work with kids in detention homes. Don't tell a kid what's right and wrong. He knows what's right and wrong. Find out what his attitude and his aptitude are; try to help him where he wants to go.
Evel Knievel
Work
Attitude
Try
Kid
Aptitude
Kids
Out
Tell
Find
Detention
He
Wrong
Like
Him
Knows
Go
His
Where
Wants
Help
Homes
Right
Right And Wrong
I did everything by the seat of my pants. That's why I got hurt so much.
Evel Knievel
Hurt
Everything
Pants
Got
Did
Much
Why
Seat
I know that I'm very lucky to be alive. For 35 or 40 years I've spilt my blood and broke my bones and spent years in hospitals.
Evel Knievel
Spent
Alive
Broke
Spilt
Hospitals
Know
Years
Blood
Very
Lucky
Bones
I think these shows with the young kids doing these jumps, doing these fantastic back flips, I think they're absolutely great. They did what I never did.
Evel Knievel
Great
Young
Think
Back
Kids
Absolutely
Never
Doing
Jumps
Did
Young Kids
Fantastic
Flips
Shows
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