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Stuart Barker. Life of Evel: Evel Knievel
Life of Evel. Stuart Barker. Evel Knievel
Table of Contents
Introduction
1The Richest Hill on Earth ‘In Butte, if you weren’t a pimp or a thief you were nothing. And I needed a few bucks to get out.’
2Happy Landings ‘I could do a wheelie either sitting on the motorcycle or standing on it better than anyone else in the world.’
3What’s in a Name? ‘Evel Knievel was a character I created. He was even hard for me to live with sometimes. He wouldn’t do anything I told him, the dumb son-of-a-bitch.’
4Theatre of Pain ‘I’m Evel Knievel. I’m not supposed to be afraid.’
5Colour Me Lucky ‘I’m going to have the best clothes, the best boots, the best diamonds, the best cars, motorcycles, booze and women on the face of this earth.’
6Sins of the Flesh ‘I didn’t sleep with seven women in 24 hours for a bet – I slept with eight.’
7Million-Dollar Drunk ‘If you think Jesus had a Last Supper, wait until you see mine. I plan a party that will leave mankind breathless.’
8Rocket Science ‘I think that man was put here on earth to live, not just to exist.’
9London Calling ‘I was a mess after Wembley. I was hurt bad.’
10Unhappy Landings ‘I fear dying but I can’t quit because the banks won’t let me.’
11Hear no Evel, See no Evel, Speak no Evel ‘Skinny little, rotten little bastard. I shoulda killed the little prick.’
12Tainted Love ‘There is only one bastard in this family and that’s me.’
13The Return of the King ‘He gave me a gift of life through his liver so that I could go on living.’
14A Life Less Ordinary ‘Dying is a part of living and none of us is going to get out of here alive.’
15Leap of Faith ‘He knows some day he’s gonna have to face that canyon in the sky.’ The Ballad of Evel Knievel, John Culliton Mahoney
Major Career Statistics. 1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977
1979
1980
References. CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER 5
CHAPTER 6
CHAPTER 7
CHAPTER 8
CHAPTER 9
CHAPTER 10
CHAPTER 11
CHAPTER 12
CHAPTER 13
CHAPTER 14
CHAPTER 15
Select Bibliography
NEWSPAPERS
WEBSITES
Index
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
R
S
T
U
V
W
Y
Z
Acknowledgements
Copyright
About the Publisher
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Best buddies
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Perhaps disliking the formal approach adopted by an official hockey school, Bobby claimed to have declined the offer of a full-time scholarship, opting instead to throw his lot in with the semi-professional Charlotte Clippers who were members of the Eastern Hockey League. Yet again he appeared to be restless and easily bored and he quit the team after completing just one exhibition season. By then Knievel felt he had no chance of making it into the professional National Hockey League and, after failing a try-out with the semi-professional Seattle Totems of the Western Hockey League, he headed back home to Butte, a little more worldly but still lacking any real direction in his life.
While he may not have been good enough to cut it on the national scene, Knievel was now armed with the experience he’d gained on his travels and he viewed himself as a big hockey fish in a pretty small pond. He saw a new opportunity of making a living from the sport, and decided to form his own team, the Butte Bombers, which he would not only own but also play for, manage and coach. If he couldn’t cut it solely as a player, maybe a jack-of-all-trades approach would reap rewards. The Bombers established themselves as a semi-professional team and Knievel claims they only lost one game in the two seasons they existed. That game was against the Czechoslovakian Olympic team, whom Bobby had shrewdly coerced into playing his Bombers as a warm-up game for the 1960 Winter Olympics that were being held at Squaw Valley in California.
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