All Alan Shepard Quotes
- Roger, liftoff, and the clock is started. Airplane
- Unfortunately, the suit is so stiff, I can't do this with two hands, but I'm going to try a little sand-trap shot here. Golf
- Got more dirt than ball. Here we go again. Ball
- Miles and miles and miles. Golf
- Because of the suit I was wearing, I couldn't make a good pivot on the swing. And I had to hit the ball with one… Ball
- The suit was so clumsy, being pressurized, it was impossible to get two hands comfortably on the handle and it's impossible to make any kind… Any
- Then I thought, with the same clubhead speed, the ball's going to go at least six times as far. There's absolutely no drag, so if… Absolutely
- If somebody'd said before the flight, 'Are you going to get carried away looking at the Earth from the Moon?' I would have say, 'No,… Away Looking
- You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to… Ability
- The fact that every part of this ship was built by the low bidder Bidder
- I realized up there that our planet is not infinite. It's fragile. That may not be obvious to a lot of folks, and it's tough… Darkness
- I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in… Achievement
- And I think that still is true of this business - which is basically research and development - that you probably spend more time in… Basically Research
- I woke up an hour before I was supposed to, and started going over the mental checklist: where do I go from here, what do… All
- I didn't mind studying. Obviously math and the physical science subjects interested me more than some of the more artistic subjects, but I think I… Artistic
- We also knew it would be difficult, because of the financial condition of the family, for me to go to college. College
- When I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon I cried Cried
- I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And… All
- Of course I was delighted the flight was over, but I still had to worry about cleaning up inside the cabin, I had to worry… Cabin
- So everything turned out fine, and we were given the opportunity to go to Washington and be briefed on the project of man in space,… Briefed
- Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school… All
- I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all. Admit
- We wanted to be in great shape, we wanted to be able to cope with zero gravity, we wanted to be able to cope with… Able
- Why don't you fix your little problem and light this candle? Candle
- On the periscope . . . . What a beautiful view. Cloud cover over Florida - three to four tenths near the eastern coast. Obscured… Beautiful