| Subject: Evel Knievel was my hero when I was a kid |
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Rick
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Date Posted: Thursday, September 13, 11:12:29pm
I remember in about grade 6 or 7 I wrote to him and he sent me an autographed photo. took it to school and nobody believed he sent it. so the class decided to write one together and I shit you not, the class got a photo back, signed in about three weeks. The teacher kept it and my own got lost over the years. I love the guy.
He once wrote a poem. This is from my head so if you find it someplace some of the lines might be screwwed up.. its been 20 years or more.....
It seems that everywhere in the world I go,
No matter who or what I know,
The people they look, and most of them stare,
And I wonder if they really care.
To see this king with his golden crown,
Some of them smile but most of them frown.
We're all alike, oh yes we are,
We all have a dream on some far away star.
For me, when its over at the end of the day,
My men go to relax, while I go to pray.
For I know that tomorrow in some other place,
I'll have that jump againt to face.
each time I was hurt, they all said,
That guy's lucky, he's not dead.
And they were right, but every stitch on every scar,
Just brought me closer to my dream afar.
To be a man, to do my best,
To stand alone, is my only quest.
For you to do what I do is not right, but for me it's not wrong,
What I've been trying to say all along,
Is that it's got to be,
For just like you, I've got to be me.
Robert Craig Knievel
To be a man, to do my best,
To stand alone, is my only quest.
those are two of the best lines ever written by anyone. Robbie Knievel gets it right too often. Everything is so technical for him. 99% of the time he knows he's going to make it before he ever gets on the bike. Evel didn't. he did it all by the seat of his pants.
Robbie Knievel may be the best there is at cycle jumping, but his father invented it.
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