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Aviation - and space travel, in particular - have always been especially captivating.
As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
When you're mad at someone, it's probably best not to break his arm with a baseball bat.
You have seen on TV how hard it is to go up 129,000 feet and how hard it is to come down.
This claustrophobia was the only weakness I had. It's not my fault. It's just in my mind.
I feel at home up in the air, just like sailors do at sea and climbers do in the mountains.
A man can fall many times in life, but he's never a failure until he refuses to get back up.
I decided to fly through the air and live in the sunlight and enjoy life as much as I could.
If there is a heaven, I don't know anything else I can do to get there - and neither do you.
If you don't know about pain and trouble, you're in sad shape. They make you appreciate life.
I do get obsessed with constantly thinking of ideas, all day long, but that's just how it is.
The most important thing in life is, if you have a dream, I mean a real good dream, follow it.
God made us. He's in charge of everything, right? If He didn't like us, why didn't he change us?
I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
If you look at the Bible almost everything that was predicted, maybe everything, has come to pass.
If you fall during your life it doesn't matter because you're never a failure if you try to get up.
If you fall during your life, it doesn't matter. You're never a failure as long as you try to get up.
One of the most exciting moments was standing out on top of the world, 30 seconds before stepping off.
It feels great to be on top of the world but the greatest feeling is when your feet are on the ground.
Well, to me, my past accomplishments weren't crazy. They required a lot of skill and careful planning.
I thought I was bulletproof or Superman there for a while. I thought I'd never run out of nerve. Never.
My failures had a lot to do with my fame. I created Evel Knievel, and then he sort of got away from me.
I can't bear the thought of my mother having to push me around in a wheelchair. I'd rather die quickly.
You should get a glass stomach. That way you won't have to worry about pulling your head out of your ass!
'I know this is going to end bad, but I'm going to pretend it's going to end good.' My life's philosophy.
I recently have had a full hip replacement and a liver transplant, and I'm getting used to the medication.
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.
The Internal Revenue Service is more ruthless than the Gestapo. Abolish the IRS! Stamp out organized crime!
I'm not an adrenaline junkie. It's never been about thrills for me. I'm just someone who loves a challenge.
I am a guy who is first of all a businessman. I'm not a stunt man. I'm not a daredevil. I'm - I'm an explorer.
Normally, when I skydive, even in winter, I wear very thin gloves. I want to be flexible, with fast reactions.
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.
You can be famous for a lot of things. You can be a Nobel-prize winner. You can be the fattest guy in the world.
If you want to do something extraordinary, there's always risk involved. I was always willing to take that risk.
I can still crack a safe with one hand tied behind my back. I'm not proud of it. But I was always against society.
We're just trying to make ourselves laugh. We realize critics are going to hate it, but it just makes fans like it more.
Well, I jumped for the first time when I was 16. I just loved it and immediately realized that it was what I wanted to do.
Everything you see on screen is real. By doing what we do, there's naturally going to be a lot of grimacing. And whimpering.
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.
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.
I want to inspire the next generation. I want to be in mission control with someone younger than me wanting to break my record.
I love a challenge, and trying to become the first person to break the speed of sound in freefall is a challenge like no other.
You can tell it's good if you light it and a blue flame comes up; that means it's good moonshine and it won't make you go blind.
Titanic Thompson and Amarillo Slim would have run from a game with Marty Stanovich. Marty could really play, and he didn't cheat.
At a certain R.P.M., there's only one way for blood to leave your body, and that's through your eyeballs. That means you're dead.
Engage your life with enthusiasm; grasp your life aggressively and squeeze from it every drop of excitement, satisfaction, and joy.
If the Wright brothers hadn't put their lives on the line, we would not be flying around the world these days. So we need pioneers.
I love the tabloids except for when I'm in 'em. Especially with the stuff they wrote about Jessica and I - it's obviously not true.
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.
It's unfortunate when kids get hurt, but I wish parents would monitor what their kids are doing and watching. It's common sense, really.