“If you want to grow old as a pilot, you’ve got to know when to push it, and when to back off.”
And
“Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn’t in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight.”
And
“Most pilots learn, when they pin on their wings and go out and get in a fighter, especially, that one thing you don’t do, you don’t believe anything anybody tells you about an airplane.”
And
“Never wait for trouble.”
And
“Rules are made for people who aren’t willing to make up their own.”
And
“You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can’t, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don’t give up.”
And
“You don’t concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.”
And
“Unfortunately, many people do not consider fun an important item on their daily agenda. For me, that was always high priority in whatever I was doing.”
Wikipedia: Chuck Yeager
