Chuck Yeager

"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

"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

"If you can walk away from a landing, it’s a good landing. If you can use the aircraft the next day, it’s an outstanding landing."

- 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."

- 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."

- Chuck Yeager

"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."

- Chuck Yeager