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I always wanted to live to about 70. I thought that'd be a good age.
Evel Knievel
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Evel Knievel
Age: 69 †
Born: 1938
Born: October 17
Died: 2007
Died: November 30
Actor
Daredevil
Entertainer
Film Actor
Motorcycle Rider
Painter
Stunt Performer
Butte
Montana
Robert Craig Knievel
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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 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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All my life people have been waiting around to watch me die.
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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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When I hit that pavement at 70 or 80 mph those suits just ripped.
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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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My own judgment of how the world is gonna end is that there will be a country led by a madman that will build a nuclear bomb with so much force, so much power, that it will be dropped somewhere on the face of this earth and that the earth will lose its place.
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The Harley's got a little too much torque when it comes to jumping.
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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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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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Bones heal, pain is temporary, and chicks dig scars
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I always knew how to draw a crowd.
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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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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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But you come to a point in your life when you can't pull the trigger anymore.
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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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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'm not a stunt man. I'm not a dare devil...I'm an explorer.
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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.
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