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Chuck Yeager Quotes

Total quotes: 21
“The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.”
— Chuck Yeager
Tagged: Secret of Success, Life, Living, Flying
“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
Tagged: Fear, solution, Try, Overcoming Fear
“I ran the astronaut school for six years, and I was the commandant and when I finished in '65, 26 of my guys went into space as NASA astronauts that I trained.”
— Chuck Yeager
Tagged: Astronaut, School, Trainor, Commandant, Space, NASA
“He was in very bad weather and his airplane broke up.”
— Chuck Yeager
Tagged: Weather, Airplane, accident, Story, Bad Weather
“I have flown in just about everything, with all kinds of pilots in all parts of the world - British, French, Pakistani, Iranian, Japanese, Chinese - and there wasn't a dime's worth of difference between any of them except for one unchanging, certain fact the best, most skillful pilot has the most experience.”
— Chuck Yeager
Tagged: Airplane, pilot, Around The World, Experience, skills
“He had a program called Free Spirit, ... He split 1 million four ways between people who didn't conform to the normal. I did a couple of slow rolls with the X-1 (the plane in which he broke the sound barrier), and I guess he thought that qualified.”
— Chuck Yeager
Tagged: Free Spirit, Program, plane
“When it started, I had about 20,000 pilots donate their aircraft and fuel so we could fly 1 million kids by Dec. 17, 2003 (the 100th anniversary of the Wright Brothers first flight), ... I flew the millionth one at the Nevada County Airport.”
— Chuck Yeager
Tagged: Pilots, donation, Airplane
“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.”
— Chuck Yeager
Tagged: Enjoyment, Work, agenda, Priority, Having Fun
“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
Tagged: risks, Results, Focus, Concentration
“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
Tagged: motivation, Passion, perseverance, Don't Give Up
“There’s no such thing as a natural-born pilot.”
— Chuck Yeager
Tagged: pilot, Natural-born, skill, Knowledge, Learning
“The first time I ever saw a jet, I shot it down.”
— Chuck Yeager
Tagged: fighter, Jet, Experience
“Rules are made for people who aren’t willing to make up their own.”
— Chuck Yeager
Tagged: Rules, Make Your Own Rules, Will
“None. I don’t drink and fly.”
— Chuck Yeager, How many UFOs have you seen?
Tagged: UFO, Drinking, Alcohol, Flying, pilot
“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.”
— Chuck Yeager
Tagged: Pilots, Airplane, Learning, Belief
“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.”
— Chuck Yeager
Tagged: mission, Experience, Flight, barrier, Knowledge
“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
Tagged: pilot, Growing Old, Knowledge, Desire
“I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.”
— Chuck Yeager
Tagged: Death, Fear, Flying, Airplane, Equipments
“Everybody that I’ve ever seen that enjoyed their job was very good at it.”
— Chuck Yeager
Tagged: Achievement, Work, Job, Enjoyment
“All that I am … I owe to the Air Force.”
— Chuck Yeager
Tagged: Air Force, Gratitude, Loyalty, Achievement
“Whatever I did I determined to do the best I could at it.”
— Chuck Yeager, Yeager: An Autobiography
Tagged: Persistance
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