John Glenn Quotes

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.

When I was younger I wanted to be an airline pilot, but that lasted for about 30 seconds.

I'm really enjoying the process of learning to fly. How it will fit into my life down the road - I'm looking forward to discovering that.

I used to skip out of high school and go flying. It was just one of those things, I thought it was kind of a cool thing to do. I never thought about doing that as a profession, but I started checking things out and I found out there was a flight school down in Daytona Beach, called Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

I always wanted to be a pilot.

Growing up, I wanted to be a pilot!

I want to be some kind of a pilot. And the other thing that I really like is psychology.

Not long ago, when I was a student in college, just flying an airplane seemed a dream. But that dream turned into reality.

I learned to fly planes at fifteen years old because one of my teachers thought I'd be a better pilot than rapper.

Four semesters of organic chemistry made a pilot out of me.

Growing up, I didn't really know who the Tuskegee Airmen were.

I never intended to become a professional pilot. But, as I became more curious about aircraft, and, well, not being John Travolta, I realized that the only way I was ever going to fly a jet is if I got a job.

My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot stories and seeing pictures of him in uniform.

I'll admit I wanted to be a pilot, originally.

But when I was selected, after my very first tour of squadron duty, to become one of the youngest candidates for the test pilot school, I began to realize, maybe you are a little bit better.

Really, anyone can learn how to fly. If you can drive a bus, you can fly an airplane.

I read, studied, and learned everything I could find about aviation. It was my greatest desire to become a pilot. I could already picture myself in the cockpit of an airliner or in a military fighter plane. I felt deep in my heart this was my thing!

I've always wanted to be a fighter pilot. But I don't want to kill people. I'd hate to.

My graduate study was interrupted, like that of many others, by World War II.

I longed to fly. I was paid in flying lessons and, by the time I was 13, I'd logged 100 hours at the controls.

Learning how to fly, for me, was so euphoric.

My first inclination was toward flying and being a pilot.

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 grew up thinking that I would become a fighter pilot and was fascinated by aircrafts as I had grown up around that. But my father encouraged me to not become an Air Force person, given the varied interests I had, be it books, movies, sports or fighter flying.

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