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Chuck Yeager Quotes

Total quotes: 13
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Everybody that I’ve ever seen that enjoyed their job was very good at it.”
— Chuck Yeager
Tagged: Achievement, Work, Job, Enjoyment
“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
“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
“Rules are made for people who aren’t willing to make up their own.”
— Chuck Yeager
Tagged: Rules, Make Your Own Rules, Will
“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
“There’s no such thing as a natural-born pilot.”
— Chuck Yeager
Tagged: pilot, Natural-born, skill, Knowledge, Learning
“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 was in very bad weather and his airplane broke up.”
— Chuck Yeager
Tagged: Weather, Airplane, accident, Story, Bad Weather
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