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.

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.

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.

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

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

I have no regrets about my life. People ask, "If you had to do it all over again, would you do it differently?" No. That's speculation.