Pilots Quotes

459 Pilots quotes by 352 unique authors

The best pilots fly more than the others; that's why they're the best. — Chuck Yeager
I have long been a proponent of a guest-worker program between the United States and Mexico, and in particular I have proposed that Arizona would… — Janet Napolitano
Fighter pilot is an attitude. It is cockiness. It is aggressiveness. It is self-confidence. It is a streak of rebelliousness, and it is competitiveness. But… — Robin Olds
I read a comment [about me] on YouTube that I thought would upset me — ‘Test pilot for pies’ — but I’ve always been a… — Adele
We're just into toys, whether it's motorcycles or race cars or computers. I've got the Palm Pilot right here with me, I've got the world's… — Catherine Bell
If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage nobody will have a chance to pilot her… — Abraham Lincoln
Death is the handmaiden of the pilot. Sometimes it comes by accident, sometimes by an act of God. — Unknown Author
Nobody who has not been up in the sky on a glorious morning can possibly imagine the way a pilot feels in free heaven. — William T. Piper
Everything I had ever learned about air fighting taught me that the man who is aggressive, who pushes a fight, is the pilot who is… — Robert S. Johnson
She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes. — Frank Deford
Any group of persons – prisoners, primitives, pilots, or patients – develop a life of their own that becomes meaningful, reasonable and normal once you… — Erving Goffman
Each test pilot I know considers him, or herself, now that there are women, to be the very best. It's very demeaning to step down… — Wally Schirra
When a test pilot comes off a flight, there is typically another pilot who is going to take it up, and he believes in the… — Wally Schirra
A top World War II ace once said that fighter pilots fall into two broad categories: those who go out to kill and those who,… — Nathan Farragut Twining
It was my view that no kill was worth the life of a wingman. . . . Pilots in my unit who lost wingmen on… — Erich Hartmann
And I have yet to find one single individual who has attained conspicuous success in bringing down enemy aeroplanes who can be said to be… — Eddie Rickenbacker
In every squadron there were, perhaps, four or five pilots who exuded confidence. They knew that they were going out to shoot. The rest knew… — Unknown Author
The duty of the fighter pilot is to patrol his area of the sky, and shoot down any enemy fighters in that area. Anything else… — Manfred von Richthofen
. . . my pilot pointed to his left front and above, and looking in the direction he pointed, I saw a long dark brown… — James McCudden
Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy. Only in this way can the eager and skillful fighter pilot… — Adolf Galland
Aggressiveness was a fundamental to success in airtoair combat and if you ever caught a fighter pilot in a defensive mood you had him licked… — Unknown Author
The smallest amount of vanity is fatal in aeroplane fighting. Selfdistrust rather is the quality to which many a pilot owes his protracted existence. — Eddie Rickenbacker
The air battle is not necessarily won at the time of the battle. The winner may have been determined by the amount of time, energy,… — Pappy Boyington
The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business in to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down. His trained hand… — Eddie Rickenbacker
Watching the Dallas Cowboys perform, it is not difficult to believe that coach Tom Landry flew fourengines bombers during World War II. He was in… — Len Morgan

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