Chuck Yeager Quotes & Sayings
16 most famous Chuck Yeager quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He's a 101 year old American aviator born on Feb 13, 1923.
“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.”
“If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off.”
“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.”
“In 1966, NASA took over in space, and it has been a bureaucratic mess ever since.”
“You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.”
“Most pilots learn, when they pin on their wings and go out and get in a fighter, especially, that one thing you don't do, you don't believe anything anybody tells you about an airplane.”
“There's no such thing as a natural-born pilot.”
“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.”
“What good does it do to be afraid? It doesn't help anything. You better try and figure out what's happening and correct it.”
“Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own.”
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