Candidates Quote by Alan Shepard

I'm 100 percent sure I'm becoming a really good helicopter pilot.

— Felix Baumgartner

What a lot of people don't know about me is that I'm a pilot myself.

— James Doohan

Every pilot thinks they're the best pilot in the world. I think I'm the best pilot.

— Gordon Bethune

Ultimately, a number of people I talked to were like, 'I would just love the day when I can be a pilot, and not…

— Monica Barbaro

When you're doing a pilot, you don't know where it will end up, and then you're being put up with the best of the…

— Lauren Ash

And So, I Was Not A Military Test Pilot, But As Soon As NASA Expressed An Interest In Flying Scientists & People Who Were…

— Story Musgrave

I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student.

— William Westmoreland

Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on.

— Alan Shepard

I just personally decided I was going to be the first woman fighter pilot.

— Martha McSally

I didn't have a lot of ambition, which I think was a good thing. I mean, I was ambitious about quality, but I wasn't…

— Justin Theroux

I have a list of things I want to experience and being a pilot was right on top of that list.

— Kunal Kapoor

Later, after flying in the Navy for four or five years, spending some time on an aircraft carrier, I applied to and was accepted…

— Mark Kelly