--- title: "1 Dying Fear Quotes By Chuck Yeager" description: "1 Dying Fear quotes by Chuck Yeager. Plus more from Chuck Yeager and more Dying Fear sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7fc/chuck-yeager-17185_afraid_i-was-always-afraid-of-dying-always-it-w_1585336.png" --- > [I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-yeager/i-was-always-afraid-of-dying-always-it-was-my-fear-that-made-me-learn/) [Chuck Yeager](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-yeager/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7fc/chuck-yeager-17185_afraid_i-was-always-afraid-of-dying-always-it-w_1585336.png) ## More by Chuck Yeager > [In 1966, NASA took over in space, and it has been a bureaucratic mess ever since.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-yeager/in-1966-nasa-took-over-in-space-and-it-has-been-a-bureaucratic-mess/) [Chuck Yeager](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-yeager/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-yeager/you-do-what-you-can-for-as-long-as-you-can-and-when-you-finally-can-t/) [Chuck Yeager](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-yeager/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-yeager/it-s-your-duty-to-fly-the-airplane-if-you-get-killed-in-it-you-don-t/) [Chuck Yeager](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-yeager/) > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-yeager/i-don-t-think-about-life-everlasting-if-something-doesn-t-have/) [Chuck Yeager](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-yeager/) > [If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-yeager/if-you-want-to-grow-old-as-a-pilot-you-ve-got-to-know-when-to-push-it/) [Chuck Yeager](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-yeager/) > [It wasn't that the X-1 would kill you, it was the systems in the X-1 that would kill you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-yeager/it-wasn-t-that-the-x-1-would-kill-you-it-was-the-systems-in-the-x-1/) [Chuck Yeager](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-yeager/) > [As we went through mach one, the nose started dropping, so we just cranked that horizontal stabilizer down to keep the nose up. We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-yeager/as-we-went-through-mach-one-the-nose-started-dropping-so-we-just/) [Chuck Yeager](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-yeager/) > [I have no regrets about my life. People ask, "If you had to do it all over again, would you do it differently?" No.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-yeager/i-have-no-regrets-about-my-life-people-ask-if-you-had-to-do-it-all/) [Chuck Yeager](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-yeager/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-yeager/that-to-me-is-a-bunch-of-crap-trying-to-shoot-guys-up-into-damned/) [Chuck Yeager](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-yeager/) > [The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-yeager/the-secret-of-my-success-is-that-i-always-managed-to-live-to-fly/) [Chuck Yeager](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-yeager/) > [Unfortunately, many people do not consider fun an important item on their daily agenda. For me, that was always a high priority in whatever…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-yeager/unfortunately-many-people-do-not-consider-fun-an-important-item-on/) [Chuck Yeager](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-yeager/) > [You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-yeager/you-don-t-concentrate-on-risks-you-concentrate-on-results-no-risk-is/) [Chuck Yeager](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-yeager/) > [Never wait for trouble.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-yeager/never-wait-for-trouble/) [Chuck Yeager](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-yeager/) > [There is no kind of ultimate goal to do something twice as good as anyone else can. It's just to do the job as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-yeager/there-is-no-kind-of-ultimate-goal-to-do-something-twice-as-good-as/) [Chuck Yeager](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-yeager/) > [“You get in, You shoot, You get out!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-yeager/you-get-in-you-shoot-you-get-out/) [Chuck Yeager](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-yeager/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dying-fear/chuck-yeager/#itemlist", "name": "1 Dying Fear Quotes By Chuck Yeager", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I was always afraid of dying. Always. 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