Fred Haise Quotes

I grew up and I kind of took the road of becoming a pilot, which was another dream I had of flying, and once I did attend the air force academy, that dream of flying became more like a project, and I wanted to be a fighter pilot, which I did. I became a fighter pilot.

Then there was the challenge to keep doing better and better, to fly the best test flight that anybody had ever flown. That led to my being recognized as one of the more experienced test pilots, and that led to the astronaut business.

I learned to fly an airplane, and had my own airplane during the 1960s.

But unlike Hillary Clinton, I know that flying is an activity, not an accomplishment.

I always wanted to be a pilot.

When I was starting out, I didn't know what the hell I was doing and my person who was helping me out, I didn't even have an agent, got me five or six big auditions for leads in movies in 1986 that I had no business auditioning for. I think I ran out of three of them before I'd even finished.

I've had a private pilot's license for years and flown all round the U.K. and over to France.

Flying was great. You have to think fast. You have to develop intuition about the physics of air moving quickly over a surface.

My first inclination was toward flying and being a pilot.

I work every day. I was flying the other day. and I was like, where am I flying? I have no idea, I work so much.

I was never trained for anything.

I'm one of those people who loves to fly.

When I was at high school, I thought it'd be nice to go into Air Force Academy and fly jets, but that was a very brief dream. Ha, ha. I'm too lanky to fit in the cockpit.

My dad is a pilot so I think I was born with the travel bug.

The airplane has had a big impact on my life.

I know that some people think differently about pilots, but I really enjoyed shooting 'Awakening'.

You know, piloting really isn't my hobby. And, it's probably not something I'd do in my spare time if I could do whatever I wanted to do. But, I'll tell you: if you've got to make a living, it's a great way to make a living!

Later, after flying in the Navy for four or five years, spending some time on an aircraft carrier, I applied to and was accepted in a program where I went to graduate school first and then to the Naval Test Pilots School.

I don't think things through very often - I don't project into the future about how a situation will turn out.

After high school in 1969, I was appointed to the Air Force Academy. In '73, I studied for my postgraduate degree and became a USAF pilot in 1974. After my discharge in 1980, I became a commercial pilot and flew my first airline flight at Pacific Southwest Airlines in 1980.

My grandmother was a flight attendant; my mother had a pilot's license, and my grandfather was a pilot. That's how my grandmother and grandfather met.

I love flying by the seat of my pants, going at something instinctually.

I was a naval officer and aviator. I tested airplanes and got selected to be an astronaut later on.

Flying small airplanes is not like being on airlines.

I had never been so challenged in an airplane that I doubted the outcome.