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

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

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.

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

Most pilots learn, when they pin on their wings and go out and get in a fighter, especially, that one thing you don't do, you don't believe anything anybody tells you about an airplane.

Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own.

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