Just before you break through the sound barrier, the cockpit shakes the most.

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.

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.

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

Hey Ridley, that Machometer is acting screwy. It just went off the scale on me.

The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.

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.