The best pilots fly more than the others; that's why they're the best.

That to me is a bunch of crap trying to shoot guys up into damned space. What they're going to do is they're going to wipe out half a dozen people one of these days, and that will be the end of it.

There is no kind of ultimate goal to do something twice as good as anyone else can. It's just to do the job as best you can. If it turns out good, fine. If it doesn't, that's the way it goes.

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.

All that I am ... I owe to the Air Force.

The best pilots fly more than the others; that's why they're the best.

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.