Rickenbacker Quotes
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Rickenbacker Quotes & Sayings
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In this business, you find the enemy, then go after and destroy him. Everything else is rubbish!
— Eddie Rickenbacker
I shall never ask any pilot to go on a mission that I won't go on.
— Eddie Rickenbacker
I can see that aerial warfare is actually scientific murder.
— Eddie Rickenbacker
I don't care what you cover the seats with as long as you cover them with assholes.
— Eddie Rickenbacker
Fighting in the air is not sport. It is scientific murder.
— Eddie Rickenbacker
The smallest amount of vanity is fatal in aeroplane fighting. Selfdistrust rather is the quality to which many a pilot owes his protracted existence.
— Eddie Rickenbacker
The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.
— Eddie Rickenbacker
I pay those guys to fly, so let them fly. I'll be damned if I'll pay them to just sit there.
— Eddie Rickenbacker
The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business is to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down.
— Eddie Rickenbacker
I've always considered myself a folk singer, even though we strapped on Rickenbacker guitars and played pretty loud.
— Roger McGuinn
I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.
— Eddie Rickenbacker
It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.
— Eddie Rickenbacker
Some friends are better shots than are casual enemies.
— Eddie Rickenbacker
Flying saucers are real. Too many good men have seen them, that don't have hallucinations.
— Eddie Rickenbacker
I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.
— Eddie Rickenbacker
The sensation of dying is sweet, sensuous, placid.
— Eddie Rickenbacker
Sports of every sort had always appealed to me.
— Eddie Rickenbacker
I went pretty much for one tone, and I knew at that time that I wanted to play a Rickenbacker.
— John Fogerty
Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
— Eddie Rickenbacker
The better I shoot, the less I have to maneuver.
— Eddie Rickenbacker
I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know.
— Eddie Rickenbacker
Fighting in the air is not a sport. It is scientific murder.
— Eddie Rickenbacker
Most of one's troubles in this world come from something inside one's self.
— Eddie Rickenbacker
Courage is about doing what you're afraid to do.
— Eddie Rickenbacker
I am not a labor hater.
— Eddie Rickenbacker
Let the moment come when nothing is left but life, and you will find that you do not hesitate over the fate of material possessions.
— Eddie Rickenbacker
Never count on the crowd to take care of you.
— Eddie Rickenbacker
Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.
— Eddie Rickenbacker
I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
— Eddie Rickenbacker
