Everybody that I've ever seen that enjoyed their job was very good at it.
Hey Ridley, that Machometer is acting screwy. It just went off the scale on me.
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.
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.
I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.