“I used to watch you on TV, flying through the air. You seemed so fearless. I wish I knew what that felt like.”
"My electronic personal assistant. You know, like on your phone. You have a phone, don't you?"
- Cruz Ramirez
Awareness
"It's all about motivation, Mr. McQueen. You can use anything negative as fuel to push through to the positive!"
- Cruz Ramirez
Motivation
"The beach ate me."
- Cruz Ramirez
Adversity
"That I didn't belong. The other racers looked nothing like me. You know, they-they were bigger, and-and stronger, and so... confident. And when they started their engines... that was it. I knew I'd never be a racer. I just left. It was my one shot, and I didn't take it."
- Cruz Ramirez
Adversity
"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."
- Leonardo DaVinci
Inspiration
"Man must rise above the Earth—to the top of the atmosphere and beyond—for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives."
- Socrates
Inspiration
"The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their grueling travels across trackless lands in prehistoric times, looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space, at full speed, above all obstacles, on the infinite highway of the air."
- Wilbur Wright
Inspiration
"Sometimes, flying feels too God-like to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes to see."
- Charles A. Lindbergh
Inspiration
"I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Inspiration