141 Quotes by Neil Armstrong

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and bites you.

I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.

I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.

I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They're sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they're hitting back and forth.

Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.

As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights have been in my memories as long as I can remember.

I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.