61 Quotes by Chuck Yeager

There’s no such thing as a natural-born pilot.

Everybody that I’ve ever seen that enjoyed their job was very good at it.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.