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Everybody that I've ever seen that enjoyed their job was very good at it. — Chuck Yeager

After about 30 minutes I puked all over my airplane. I said to my self, "Man, you made a big mistake." — Chuck Yeager

The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day. — Chuck Yeager

The best pilots fly more than the others; that's why they're the best. — Chuck Yeager

It's always easier to apologize for something you've already done than to get approval for it in advance. — Grace Hopper

Just before you break through the sound barrier, the cockpit shakes the most. — Chuck Yeager

It's really difficult for fanatic churchgoers to understand God can't help me. I'm the only one who can help me. — Chuck Yeager

You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done. — Chuck Yeager

It wasn't that the X-1 would kill you, it was the systems in the X-1 that would kill you. — Chuck Yeager

Never wait for trouble. — Chuck Yeager

In 1966, NASA took over in space, and it has been a bureaucratic mess ever since. — Chuck Yeager

There's no such thing as a natural-born pilot. — Chuck Yeager

I've seen the film. And I'll tell you this, I'm glad Chuck Yeager isn't running for President. — Walter F. Mondale

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. — Chuck Yeager

I have no regrets about my life. People ask, "If you had to do it all over again, would you do it differently?" No. That's speculation. — Chuck Yeager

Hey Ridley, that Machometer is acting screwy. It just went off the scale on me. — Chuck Yeager

It would be unfair to expect other people to be as brilliant as oneself. — Oscar Wilde

Rich gets richer with the expenses of the poorest — Pradeepa Pandiyan

Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own. — Chuck Yeager

I don't think about life everlasting. If something doesn't have scientific evidence to back it up, I don't believe it. I'm a straight shooter. — Chuck Yeager

Uh-oh, I hope he doesn't start rattling off dirty limericks next; she'll probably burn the hotel down. — Elle Lothlorien

The one word you use in military flying is duty. It's your duty. You have no control over outcome, no control over pick-and-choose. It's duty. — Chuck Yeager

At the moment of truth, there are either reasons or results. — Chuck Yeager

If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing. — Chuck Yeager

When I was picked to fly the X-1, it was my duty to fly it, and I did. — Chuck Yeager

Memory is useful because it gives us a sense of continuity. But memory is also imprisoning because it conditions us in predictable ways. — Deepak Chopra

You concentrate on what you are doing, to do the best job you can, to stay out of serious situations. And that's the way the X-1 was. — Chuck Yeager

All that I am ... I owe to the Air Force. — Chuck Yeager

It struck him as a bit unfair that, at the age of eight, he should have manifested the same sense of solitude that haunted him at forty-three. — John Le Carre

If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off. — Chuck Yeager

What good does it do to be afraid? It doesn't help anything. You better try and figure out what's happening and correct it. — Chuck Yeager

The first time I ever saw a jet, I shot it down. — Chuck Yeager