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.

After about 30 minutes I puked all over my airplane. I said to my self, "Man, you made a big mistake."

I ran the astronaut school for six years, and I was the commandant and when I finished in '65, 26 of my guys went into space as NASA astronauts that I trained.

The first time I ever saw a jet, I shot it down.

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

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.

The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.