Chuck Daly Quotes

My ears are huge. If there's ever a problem with a plane I'm on, they could just put me on the wing and I'll land the sucker.

As a pilot, I can tell you drones may be a lot of things; airplanes they are not.

Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which men will never have to cope.

I loved flying as much as I thought I would and continue to fly aircraft.

I quit flying myself last year and that was difficult for me because I enjoy it as much as playing golf. It was an adjustment sitting in the back of the plane, rather than at the controls, but I've grown accustomed to it and enjoy reading a book, doing some work or challenging my wife to a game of dominos.

Difficult times disrupt your conventional ways of thinking and push you to forge better habits of thought, performance and being.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

I did want to be a pilot. I wanted to be a military pilot because I liked airplanes. I was interested in modeling airplanes.

I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.

Whenever the heat's on, my whole life, I've just kind of learned to focus a little more.

Yes, I am a pilot. I am a flight instructor and a commercial pilot.

A plane is of no use without the man or woman who flies it!

Flying, I continue to be involved with. I love flying, and I hope to keep doing it so long as I can pass my medicals and stay proficient.

I really love flying, but it's really nice to jump on a plane, sit back, and let someone else do the heavy lifting, but flying is my main passion for sure.

I can remember having meetings with my coaches when things were going bad. I told them, 'Hey, we've got to be positive. This is the time we need to step up. You've got to make sure they know everything is going to be okay. Keep teaching. Once they see you are down, you lose them and that can't happen.'

I've always been calm, and I'm very good in a crisis.

I immediately loved flying from my first flight and knew that in some way it was going to be a part of my future career!

It's hard for anyone or any situation to rattle me, as a quarterback and a person.

I chose to be in this job and things don't always go your way. But I'll keep going. As a manager you have to be optimistic and think things are going to get better.

I became a manager very young. My first sous chef job I was, maybe, 25. It was a bit too early for me. But it's on-the-job training. You really just get stuck in there and it's trial and error. You learn by your mistakes, and hopefully you don't keep making them. And if you do, you just keep trying to fix it.

As a man handles his troubles during the day, so he goes to bed at night a General, Captain, or Private.

A business owner is the boss, but it's a job, a place that is stable and profitable. An entrepreneur is an artist of sorts, throwing his/herself into impossible situations and seeking out problems that require heart and guts to solve. Both are fine, but choose.

Bosses and leaders everywhere should cherish the people who bring them bad news, disappointing data or hard problems.

It is the job of leaders to eliminate uncertainty.

Victims recite problems, leaders provide solutions.