Seneca the Younger Quotes

Here's to the pilot that weathered the storm.

Flying as Bob, there was always stress involved.

My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration.

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

In a crisis, you separate the men from the boys.

I started [flying] by being scared. When I was an amateur I played a couple tournaments and I had to fly, and got into weather and stuff, and it scared me, and I decided that would not work, I had to learn to fly, I had to find out about airplanes and aeronautical engineering and what it was all about.

After two wars, I have been in danger too often to bother very much about being killed, and when it comes, I would prefer that it should happen in an aeroplane, since aeroplanes have been the best part of my life.

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 went to the University of Washington as a physics and astronomy major. My other interest, of course, was aviation. I always wanted to be a pilot. And if you're going to fly airplanes, the best place to be is the Air Force.

You don't know what people are really like until they're under a lot of stress.

My pilot's license. I'm proud of that.

I don't have a problem with conflict. I'm not a stranger to high-pressure situations. I've been there, believe me.

I've always been a good flier. I love the whole experience.

Yes... well, I used to have a pilot's license.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.

He who voluntarily confronts tremendous odds must have very great internal resources to draw upon

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

I was more of a person that liked flying and operating high-performance machinery, and I liked that, the skill it took, the intelligence it took to do that.

I was a war correspondent. I've watched great people crumble under pressure and make bad decisions.

A man's character is not judged after he celebrates a victory, but by what he does when his back is against the wall.

When it's asshole-tightening time, that's when you see what people are made of. Or at least what their asshole is made of.

When you deal with somebody in the heat of battle, you see the best or the worst of them. So when you get through all that there is a great deal of respect.

The man who flies an airplane ... must believe in the unseen.

The pilot who is always dreading a rock or a tempest must not complain if he remain a poor fisherman. We must at times trust, something to fortune, for fortune has often some share in what happens.