Chuck Yeager Quotes

Chuck Yeager (10)

Birth:	13th February, 1923
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Aviator, Pilot, Soldier

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• I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.

  Chuck Yeager

  Topics in Fear

  Tags in Everything, Emergency

• If you want to grow old as a pilot, you’ve got to know when to push it, and when to back off.

  Chuck Yeager

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Grow

• Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn’t in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight.

  Chuck Yeager

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Real, Realized

• Most pilots learn, when they pin on their wings and go out and get in a fighter, especially, that one thing you don’t do, you don’t believe anything anybody tells you about an airplane.

  Chuck Yeager

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe, Learn, Anything

• Never wait for trouble.

  Chuck Yeager

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Never, Trouble

• Rules are made for people who aren’t willing to make up their own.

  Chuck Yeager

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Best

• There’s no such thing as a natural-born pilot.

  Chuck Yeager

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Thing, Natural

• You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can’t, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don’t give up.

  Chuck Yeager

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Best, Thing, Finally

• You don’t concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.

  Chuck Yeager

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Results, Necessary

• The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.

  Chuck Yeager

  Tags in One Day