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.

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

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.

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

I have flown in just about everything, with all kinds of pilots in all parts of the world - British, French, Pakistani, Iranian, Japanese, Chinese - and there wasn't a dime's worth of difference between any of them except for one unchanging, certain fact: the best, most skillful pilot has the most experience.

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

It's your duty to fly the airplane. If you get killed in it, you don't know anything about it anyway. Duty is paramount. It's that simple if you're a military guy. You don't say 'I'm not going to do that - that's dangerous.' If it's your duty to do it, that's the way it is.