Chuck Yeager Quotes

The one word you use in military flying is duty. It's your duty. You have no control over outcome, no control over pick-and-choose. It's duty.

If the Wright brothers hadn't put their lives on the line, we would not be flying around the world these days. So we need pioneers.

To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.

My daddy was a World War I pilot, and I just wanted to be able to fly like he did.

When the party gives me a responsibility, I must do it with complete dedication. God has given me the ability, which I utilise to its optimum.

In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do.

Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.

The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.

The very, very beginning is that my mother and father were aviators.

Any commands which Congress may have for me shall be cheerfully executed by one of their earliest soldiers, whose happiness it is to think that, at a less smiling moment, he had the honor to be adopted by America, and whose blood, exertions, and affections will in her good times, as they have been in her worst, be entirely at her service.

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

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.

I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.

With freedom comes responsibility, and I can think of no responsibility greater than putting on a U.S military uniform and standing in the gap between an enemy threat and civilian life.

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

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

I don't think I could be a foot soldier. I don't know if I could take orders too good. I'm a little lazy.

I rarely watch TV but I guess I'd watch the weather report since I fly so much.

I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.

Let me die in my old uniform. God forgive me for ever putting on any other.

As everybody likes to be honored, so people imagine that God also wants to be honored. They forget that the fulfillment of duty towards men is the only honor adequate to him.

When you are called, you serve

My plane is a Premiere; it has very efficient gas turbine engines. It goes very fast on relatively little fuel. Flying has been my passion since I was a kid.

Every member of the U.S. Armed Forces knows what they signed up for, and they know what their job is, and they are proud of their job.

I've got a job to do.