Evel Knievel Quotes

Somebody else can be the first man on the moon. It doesn't interest me at all.

All the Chinese have to do is fly around the Moon and back, and they'll appear to have won the return to the Moon with humans. They could put one person on the surface of the Moon for one day and he'd be a national hero.

We got to the moon.

I cycled on a crew assignment as the backup commander on Apollo 16 and would have flown Apollo 19 on a return mission to the moon. However, the last few missions of the Apollo Program were canceled for budgetary reasons. So I lost my second opportunity to land on the moon.

Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my twenties.

I think I was very interested in the space program as a kid, watching the first Apollo missions to the moon, and it's something I thought that would be a lot of, of fun and exciting and a very worthwhile job.

As plans for the first lunar landing started to be made, nobody had really thought about who would be out first.

From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.

I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it.

Go to the moon - that's my dream.

When I was younger, humans went to the moon when I was about 4 years old, and I imagined that as I got older and became an adult that traveling in space was going to be fairly common and something that we all did. So I grew up believing that I'll be an astronaut just like these guys were that were going to the moon.

I would still like to go to the moon before I die.

I had the good fortune and the gift to be one of the 12 men to walk on the moon.

It was an incredible series, 'From The Earth To The Moon.' All of it's great.

How can you say that Neil Armstrong went up to the moon in a little spaceship just for the craic but another planet can't send someone here?

If you look, like, in 1960, there was no such thing as an astronaut. It was a totally fanciful concept, but nine years later or whatever, we were landing on the moon, which is just astonishing.

I was born in 1960 and can still tell you the name of every astronaut from Mercury to Apollo. If I had a chance, I'd love to go into space on one of the privately developed space crafts.

In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.

When Kennedy said, 'Let's go to the moon,' we didn't yet have a vehicle that wouldn't kill you on launch. He said we'll land a man on the moon in eight years and bring him back. That was an audacious goal to put forth in front of the American people.

Sending a couple of guys to the Moon and bringing them back safely? That's a stunt! That's not historic.

We knew it was going to be difficult to get to the moon. We didn't know how difficult.

We've all heard about space and landing on the moon, but somehow it's a very tom-boyish adventure. It's planting the flag on the moon by Neil Armstrong, and it has this very male-hero edge to it.

Neil Armstrong, when he was out there landing on the moon, I was there first.

I was only 8 years old on July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong, 38-year-old commander of 'Apollo 11,' descended the cramped lunar module Eagle's ladder with hefty backpack and bulky spacesuit to become the first human on the moon.

We were young, we were pilots, and we were hungry to test the new technology of 'space machines.' And we all wanted to be first.