Richard Quest Quotes

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.

I wanted to be a pilot. I loved flying and I loved all the technology and the equipment and the sense of adventure that came with it. I think that feeling still bleeds over into everything I do today.

Growing up, I wanted to be a pilot!

When you're asked to fly a 747 you better at least be able to fly a Piper cub.

If it's really beautiful weather, sometimes I might take a helicopter out. I got my license in 1999.

Had I not become a professional golfer, I think I would have pursued some type of career in aviation.

I want to find a nice decent job as a helicopter pilot.

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 tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.

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!

Dad endorsed my learning to fly so he would have a live-in pilot, one he could get in touch with at any time.

There's no such thing as a natural-born pilot.

I always wanted to be a pilot.

Through the misguided notion that writing about flying was easy, I had McCone become a pilot. When I learned that research in books wasn't enough, I forced myself to take lessons.

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.

Almost everything else I have done during my adult years has been affected to some extent by my name - by my father's position, if you will. But in the air, I had no name; to the Federal Aviation Agency I was simply Comanche Nine-Nine POP. The quality of my landings, navigation and judgment were mine alone.

From a very early age, I wanted to fly aeroplanes.

I'm a partner in a company called Helicopter Services and Instruction out of New Jersey.

Every day, I'm working on my aviation career so that I don't have to think about working as an actor.

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.

As a kid I wanted to be a pilot.

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.

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.