Evel Knievel Quotes

Hopefully I can help kids, and they can end up being stronger in the long run, too.

I love talking to the youth and helping them as much as I can or encouraging them, if I can help them at all.

I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth.

I love working with kids, talking with them and listening to them. I always encourage kids to reach beyond their dreams. Don't try to be like me. Be better than me.

If I had a personal wish for the new ideas in this new book it would be that every parent, every counselor, every teacher, every professor, every sports coach that deals with young people would understand the three circle concept.

We have to instill in them the skills they need to succeed at a young age and open up their imaginations to the very real opportunities they can be afforded if they put their minds to it.

I'm a strong believer in kid-empowerment.

We started a movement... to build character, citizenship and confidence in young people.

I want to spend more time with those kids. I want to dedicate my time to train those kids and teach them what it takes, what they need to do to get to this level.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

I got a way to get through to kids. I try to take that and use that to my advantage. If we work on the kids right now, I'm telling you, they'll be making less mistakes, the jails will be gettin' less full. It's all about what we do with the kids.

Acting aggressively will allow our youth to aspire for better-paid jobs and find alternatives to criminality.

The key thing is, even if you only have a couple of hours a month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next to one student, concentrated attention, shining this beam of light on their work, on their thoughts and their self-expression, is going to be absolutely transformative, because so many of the students have not had that ever before.

I adore this adventure, I adore working with youth. For me it's a daily challenge, working to help these youths realize their dreams.

The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it.

No matter what color you are, if you mentor some little boy or girl, you make a huge difference in their lives because they then model behavior that leads to success versus modeling behavior that doesn't.

The teachers were focused on helping these students. The students benefited from hands-on teaching and a faculty who cared about them and their success in life and soon the students began to believe in themselves and the reality that they could make something of their lives.

There is no such thing as a bad boy. There is only bad environment, bad training, bad example and bad thinking ... Understanding and not punishment is the solution for what is commonly called 'juvenile delinquency'

Break not the will of the young, but guide it to right ends.

Obviously, if some young girl wants my advice and wants me to be her mentor, I would be very happy to offer that. But I don't really see myself as a coach.

Boxing saved my life. There were a lot of gangs and I was hanging around with the wrong people.

After doing 'Dance Moms,' I've been super inspired and motivated to work with girls.

Our job as a coaching staff is to mentor, to discipline and to educate young people.

I know I want to do something with kids and help them become better mentally, physically and emotionally. They're the future after we're gone. So we have to prepare kids to be adults.

The reason you get into coaching in the first place is to help and develop, try to make people better.