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.

I love the feeling of the fresh air on my face and the wind blowing through my hair.

Bones heal, pain is temporary, and chicks dig scars

A man can fall many times in life, but he's never a failure until he refuses to get back up.

If you don't know about pain and trouble, you're in sad shape. They make you appreciate life.

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.

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.

If a guy hasn't got any gamble in him- he isn't worth a crap.

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

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

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

There's more to life than dating the boy on the football team.

Today women have the rights and equality our Victorian sisters could only dream of, and with those privileges comes the responsibility of standing up and being counted.

That's a demon for you. Wants me dead but wants to be sure that he is the one who does me in.

We will be judged by how well we love.

A good belly laugh is like taking your liver for a horseback ride.

Gratitude is like a magnet; the more grateful you are, the more you will receive to be grateful for.

I don't even like money. It just quiets my nerves.

Non-co-operation is a nation's determination to improve.

Each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity.

I teach my sighs to lengthen into songs.