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,…

— Eddie Rickenbacker

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

— 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…

— 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…

— Eddie Rickenbacker

Major Richard Bong was an example of the tragic and terrible price we must pay to maintain principles of human rights, of…

— Eddie Rickenbacker

The smallest amount of vanity is fatal in aeroplane fighting. Selfdistrust rather is the quality to which many a pilot owes his…

— Eddie Rickenbacker

I am not a labor hater.

— Eddie Rickenbacker

There is a peculiar gratification in receiving congratulations from one's squadron for a victory in the air. It is worth more to…

— Eddie Rickenbacker

Within the next few decades, autos will have folding wings that can be spread when on a straight stretch of road so…

— Eddie Rickenbacker

Flying saucers are real. Too many good men have seen them, that don't have hallucinations.

— Eddie Rickenbacker

Long practise in driving a racing car at a hundred miles an hour or so gives first-class training in control and judging…

— Eddie Rickenbacker

I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know, and I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid…

— Eddie Rickenbacker

I pay those guys to fly, so let them fly. I'll be damned if I'll pay them to just sit there.

— Eddie Rickenbacker

I believe that if you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you will hasten your demise. Think…

— Eddie Rickenbacker

Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.

— Eddie Rickenbacker

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

— Eddie Rickenbacker

Courage is about doing what you're afraid to do.

— Eddie Rickenbacker