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.

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.

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

Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight.

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

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.