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.
It wasn't that the X-1 would kill you, it was the systems in the X-1 that would kill you. - Chuck Yeager
It wasn't that the X-1 would kill you, it was the systems in the X-1 that would kill you.
- Chuck Yeager
You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done. - Chuck Yeager
You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.
That to me is a bunch of crap trying to shoot guys up into damned space. What they're going to do is they're going to wipe out half a dozen people on… - Chuck Yeager
That to me is a bunch of crap trying to shoot guys up into damned space. What they're going to do is they're going to wipe out half a dozen people on…
The first time I ever saw a jet, I shot it down. - Chuck Yeager
The first time I ever saw a jet, I shot it down.
Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own. - Chuck Yeager
Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own.
At the moment of truth, there are either reasons or results. - Chuck Yeager
At the moment of truth, there are either reasons or results.
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. - Chuck Yeager
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.
Unfortunately, many people do not consider fun an important item on their daily agenda. For me, that was always a high priority in whatever I was doi… - Chuck Yeager
Unfortunately, many people do not consider fun an important item on their daily agenda. For me, that was always a high priority in whatever I was doi…
Just before you break through the sound barrier, the cockpit shakes the most. - Chuck Yeager
Just before you break through the sound barrier, the cockpit shakes the most.
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