Pilot Quotes by Eddie Rickenbacker

In this business, you find the enemy, then go after and destroy him. Everything else is rubbish!

— Eddie Rickenbacker

The better I shoot, the less I have to maneuver.

— Eddie Rickenbacker

I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

— Eddie Rickenbacker

The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business is to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down.

— Eddie Rickenbacker

Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life become more secure, more fraught with action, richer in experience and achievement.

— Eddie Rickenbacker

Some friends are better shots than are casual enemies.

— Eddie Rickenbacker

The obviously inexperienced pilot is the game the scientific air-fighter goes after, and the majority of victories are won that way. But, on the…

— Eddie Rickenbacker

When I look up and see the sun shining on the patch of white clouds up in the blue, I begin to think how…

— Eddie Rickenbacker

Sports of every sort had always appealed to me.

— Eddie Rickenbacker

The sensation of dying is sweet, sensuous, placid. It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.

— Eddie Rickenbacker

“Aviation is proof that given the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible."(1890-1973), American aviator”

— Eddie Rickenbacker

When I look up and see the sun shining on the patch of white clouds up in the blue, I begin to think how…

— Eddie Rickenbacker