World famous stuntman and daredevil Evel Knievel passed away on Friday. People Magazine reports:
Knievel had been in frail health for some time. Speaking to USA Today earlier this year, Knievel – crippled with arthritis, recovering from a stroke and aching from his decades of bodily injuries he’d earned while performing – admitted he no longer felt invincible, as he had in his youth.
“I think about God a lot more than ever,” he said, “though I used to ask him, ‘Help me make a good jump.’ I’m awfully tough to get along with, but I’ll tell you what: I am a good person. I wish there was such a thing as reincarnation.”
“If there is a heaven, I don’t know anything else I can do to get there,” he told the interviewer, “and neither do you.”
Among his survivors are sons Kelly and Robbie Knievel, daughters Alicia and Tracey, 11 grandchildren and ex-wives Linda Knievel and Krystal Kennedy, 40, the former Florida State golfer who became Evel’s caregiver and companion despite their short, rocky marriage.
Son of a bitch. Growing up, I used to love watching his old tapes and playing with old action figures my parents had that they let me play with. If it wasn’t for Evel I don’t think I ever would have gotten into skateboarding; OK, yeah I would but still it didn’t hurt.
You will be missed. Now try to jump over God on a rocket powered dog sled, Evel. Bones don’t break in heaven.
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