Alan Shepard Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“You may not have any extra talent, but maybe you are just paying more attention to what you are doing.”

“I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all.”

“Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess.”

“Of course I was delighted the flight was over, but I still had to worry about cleaning up inside the cabin, I had to worry about the hatch, how to get in the sling, and so on.”

“I woke up an hour before I was supposed to, and started going over the mental checklist: where do I go from here, what do I do? I don't remember eating anything at all, just going through the physical, getting into the suit. We practiced that so much, it was all rote.”

“You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft.”

“Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on.”

“I didn't mind studying. Obviously math and the physical science subjects interested me more than some of the more artistic subjects, but I think I was a pretty good student.”

“The rocket had worked perfectly, and all I had to do was survive the reentry forces. You do it all, in a flight like that, in a rather short period of time, just 16 minutes as a matter of fact.”