61 Quotes by Chuck Yeager

All that I am ... I owe to the Air Force.

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.

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

Never wait for trouble.

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

At 42,000' in approximately level flight, a third cylinder was turned on. Acceleration was rapid and speed increased to .98 Mach. The needle of the machmeter fluctuated at this reading momentarily, then passed off the scale. Assuming that the off-scale reading remained linear, it is estimated that 1.05 Mach was attained at this time.

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

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.

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.