The better I shoot, the less I have to maneuver.

- Eddie Rickenbacker

Courage is about doing what you're afraid to do.

- Eddie Rickenbacker

Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.

- Eddie Rickenbacker

The key to success, is to think things through and then follow through.

- Eddie Rickenbacker

The biggest lesson I've learned . . . was that if you have all the fresh water you want to drink and all the food you want to eat, you ought never to…

- Eddie Rickenbacker

I don't care what you cover the seats with as long as you cover them with assholes.

- Eddie Rickenbacker

If a thing is old, it is a sign that it was fit to live. Old families, old customs, old styles survive because they are fit to survive. The guarantee…

- Eddie Rickenbacker

Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life become more secure, more fraught with action, richer in experience and achievem…

- Eddie Rickenbacker

I pay those guys to fly, so let them fly. I'll be damned if I'll pay them to just sit there.

- Eddie Rickenbacker