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Chuck Yeager quotes

You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.

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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.

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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.

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You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.

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If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing.

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In 1966, NASA took over in space, and it has been a bureaucratic mess ever since.

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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.

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