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.

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.

At the moment of truth, there are either reasons or results.

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's no such thing as a natural-born pilot.

If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off.

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.