You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.

The one word you use in military flying is duty. It's your duty. You have no control over outcome, no control over pick-and-choose. It's duty.

I don't think about life everlasting. If something doesn't have scientific evidence to back it up, I don't believe it. I'm a straight shooter.

Everybody that I've ever seen that enjoyed their job was very good at it.

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.

You concentrate on what you are doing, to do the best job you can, to stay out of a serious situation. That’s the way the X-1 was.

Hey Ridley, that Machometer is acting screwy. It just went off the scale on me.