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I love the feeling of the fresh air on my face and the wind blowing through my hair.
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I relish the sensation of the clean breeze caressing my face and the gusts ruffling my locks.
2.
Bones heal, pain is temporary, and chicks dig scars
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"Healing comes with time, suffering is fleeting, and women are attracted to marks of courage."
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A man can fall many times in life, but he's never a failure until he refuses to get back up.
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A person may encounter numerous setbacks in life, but only when they cease to strive for success are they truly defeated.
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If you don't know about pain and trouble, you're in sad shape. They make you appreciate life.
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If I'm out trailriding, I have a favorite motorcycle. Riding on the road, I've got a favorite. If I'm jumping, I have a favorite, and if I'm racing, I have a favorite.
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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.
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If a guy hasn't got any gamble in him- he isn't worth a crap.
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Anybody can jump a motorcycle. The trouble begins when you try to land it
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When I hit that pavement at 70 or 80 mph those suits just ripped.
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The finest compliment you can pay a man is that his word was as good as gold.
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Where there is little risk, there is little reward.
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When you're mad at someone, it's probably best not to break his arm with a baseball bat.
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Harley-Davidson is the finest company in the world.
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I'm not a jack of all trades; I'm a master of many. I don't feel there is anything I can't do if I want to.
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I would always rather be in the arena fighting than be a spectator.
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I decided to fly through the air and live in the sunlight and enjoy life as much as I could.
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You can't ask a guy like me why [I performed]. I really wanted to fly through the air. I was a daredevil, a performer. I loved the thrill, the money, the whole macho thing. All those things made me Evel Knievel. Sure, I was scared. You gotta be an ass not to be scared. But I beat the hell out of death.
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Risk is good. Not properly managing your risk is a dangerous leap.
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I guess I thought I was Elvis Presley but I'll tell ya something. All Elvis did was stand on a stage and play a guitar. He never fell off on that pavement at no 80 mph.
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If you fall during your life it doesn't matter because you're never a failure if you try to get up.
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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.
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22.
If it is possible, it is done. If it is impossible... it will be done.
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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.
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I don't have any problems in life, just situations.
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I know guys in my hometown that drive by feel and sound.
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In the old days they, the promoters, wanted more and more from me. They wanted me to jump or spill my blood and break my bones. Every time they wanted me to jump further, and further, and further. Hell, they thought my bike had wings.
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I thought I was bulletproof or Superman there for a while. I thought I'd never run out of nerve. Never.
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I've always lived by the creed that you're never a failure in life when you fall as long as you try and get up.
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The Harley's got a little too much torque when it comes to jumping.
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I did everything by the seat of my pants. That's why I got hurt so much.
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You're never a failure until you fail to get up.
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I'm not a stunt man. I'm not a dare devil...I'm an explorer.
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You'd think a guy who has broken 35 bones in his body would have a high pain threshold, but mine is pretty low. I got hit in the shin with a golf ball once and it almost brought tears to my eyes. I've had broken bones that didn't hurt as bad.
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She (my ex-wife) wanted me to stop being Evel Knievel. I am who I am. I'm not going to change. I'll settle down the day they put me in a six-foot pine box.
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I created Evel Knievel, and then he sort of got away from me.
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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.'
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I went through life big-bang-banda-boom-bada-boom.
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I always knew how to draw a crowd.
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I can say the Lord's prayer in 10 seconds.
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I think I coulda landed on a dime. I really do.
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But you come to a point in your life when you can't pull the trigger anymore.
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I guess I'm like any other concerned father, except that nobody else's son guns a cycle over 17 pickups without holding on to the handlebars.
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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.
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I am a lucky, lucky person.
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45.
Unless we do things in this country to slow down our population, slow down our birth control, provide better water for people, provide power for people, we're gonna find out that the next wars are not going to be fought over diamonds, gold and political things.
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46.
No prince, no king, no president has ever lived a better life than I have!
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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.
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If you look at the Bible almost everything that was predicted, maybe everything, has come to pass.
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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.
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I recently have had a full hip replacement and a liver transplant, and I'm getting used to the medication.
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