Evel Knievel Quotes

I sometimes stop and wonder if I have a superhumanly high pain threshold and I just don't know it... But then I stub my toe and think probably not.

When fish experience something that would cause other animals physical pain, they behave in ways suggestive of pain, and the change in behaviour may last several hours.

There are a lot of myths about my injuries. They say I have broken every bone in my body. Not true. But I have broken 35 bones. I had surgery 14 times to pin and plate. I shattered my pelvis. I forget all of the things that have broke.

I've certainly experienced physical pain in my life.

I don't feel pain like most people.

I can't even remember playing a game without pain.

I have a high tolerance for pain.

My first injury ever was a broken toe, and my mother made me run laps around the mat for the rest of the night. She said she wanted me to know that even if I was hurt, I was still fine.

I love pain. Love pain.

It is funny how it is almost more painful to fall over and scrape your knee than to be blown up. Your body goes into incredible protection mode.

For a sensation to be felt as pain is for it to be pain.

I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.

There's nothing you can do about busted ribs. You just have to wait for them to pop back into place again.

The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure.

I actually had kind of one of those crazy experiences where when I hit, it was black out excruciating pain, and then white out absence of pain, and the subconscience thought that I want to go back.

The limit of every pain is an even greater pain.

I have a high tolerance for pain - both physical and mental.

I think I have got a decent pain threshold.

I knew I was shot. Didn't know how bad it was. You know, in a weird way, your body kind of goes numb. You know, as bad as the wounds were - and obviously, I know now how severe it was - at the time, I guess my body had been shutting down a lot of the real pain.

You're going to hurt, yes. You're going to have tweaks and problems. But you're a football player; you can play through those.

I've broken probably every major bone in my body.

I have played with a torn bicep before. I have come back from a torn Achilles before. So I guess it's just in my DNA.

I didn't notice pain in the way that most guys would.

I tend to hold on to injuries a lot longer than others.

I busted my nose 11 times. My fingers are all busted. My ribs. Both my arms. I can't straighten them out.