Unfortunately, many people do not consider fun an important item on their daily agenda. For me, that was always a high priority in whatever I was doing. — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
In 1966, NASA took over in space, and it has been a bureaucratic mess ever since. — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thing. You back… — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
It's your duty to fly the airplane. If you get killed in it, you don't know anything about it anyway. Duty is paramount. It's… — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
I don't think about life everlasting. If something doesn't have scientific evidence to back it up, I don't believe it. I'm a straight shooter. — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off. — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
It wasn't that the X-1 would kill you, it was the systems in the X-1 that would kill you. — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
As we went through mach one, the nose started dropping, so we just cranked that horizontal stabilizer down to keep the nose up. We… — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
I have no regrets about my life. People ask, "If you had to do it all over again, would you do it differently?" No.… — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
That to me is a bunch of crap trying to shoot guys up into damned space. What they're going to do is they're going… — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day. — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, many people do not consider fun an important item on their daily agenda. For me, that was always a high priority in whatever… — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done. — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
