Yeager Quotes

#1. I am tired, so very tired of thinking about Lacey Yeager, yet I worry that unless I write her story down, and see it bound and tidy on my bookshelf, I will be unable to ever write about anything else.

Steve Martin

#2. I've seen the film. And I'll tell you this, I'm glad Chuck Yeager isn't running for President.

Walter F. Mondale

#3. He'd had his own book published, Across the High Frontier - the one years before The Right Stuff or Yeager! - so he wasn't shy when it came to publicity.

Donald K. Slayton

#4. I miss Bettie Page. I've been missing her since the last time I photographed her in 1954.

Bunny Yeager

#5. Forgetting everything else, the journey, the compound, escape, the dying man, the many troubles he left behind, the new troubles ahead, his mind wiped itself clean of thought, and the nerves of his body screamed out for input. He was now the predator, and they were his prey.

Steve R. Yeager

#6. 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

#7. There is no such thing as too much lace on your underwear," Zurra explained. "Do you know who said that? George Washington.

Aaron Lee Yeager

#8. 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

#9. At the moment of truth, there are either reasons or results.

Chuck Yeager

#10. There's no such thing as a natural-born pilot.

Chuck Yeager

#11. Everybody that I've ever seen that enjoyed their job was very good at it.

Chuck Yeager

#12. In 1966, NASA took over in space, and it has been a bureaucratic mess ever since.

Chuck Yeager

#13. I don't think about life everlasting. If something doesn't have scientific evidence to back it up, I don't believe it. I'm a straight shooter.

Chuck Yeager

#14. All of me, none of God. Less of me, more of God. None of me, all of God.

Michael H. Yeager

#15. When you start photographing yourself, you are going to be amazed at all the things you find out about yourself, and you'll be glad you did.

Bunny Yeager

#16. After about 30 minutes I puked all over my airplane. I said to my self, "Man, you made a big mistake."

Chuck Yeager

#17. Whether you're talking about the Egyptian pharaohs or Hollywood movie stars it all ends the same way. DEATH

Neal A. Yeager

#18. That to me is a bunch of crap trying to shoot guys up into damned space. What they're going to do is they're going to wipe out half a dozen people one of these days, and that will be the end of it.

Chuck Yeager

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. Never wait for trouble.

Chuck Yeager

#22. Hey Ridley, that Machometer is acting screwy. It just went off the scale on me.

Chuck Yeager

#23. Cheapskates ... are too self-confident - and frankly too smart - to spend money on things they don't need and probably don't even want, simply to impress others or just because they can.

Jeff Yeager

#24. The first time I ever saw a jet, I shot it down.

Chuck Yeager

#25. What good does it do to be afraid? It doesn't help anything. You better try and figure out what's happening and correct it.

Chuck Yeager

#26. If you're looking for something more in life, you're likely to find it in something less.

Jeff Yeager

#27. It's really difficult for fanatic churchgoers to understand God can't help me. I'm the only one who can help me.

Chuck Yeager

#28. 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

#29. I love my haters, they rage and rage and all they do is spreading my word.

James Yeager

#30. Bettie Page was number one. I have never known another model who had better knowledge of her body or how to work with it to make it look so good. Her skin was perfect, no blemishes. Perfect nose, beautiful straight teeth, and gleaming, shiny black hair that was always in place, always.

Bunny Yeager

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

Chuck Yeager

#32. Unfortunately, many people do not consider fun an important item on their daily agenda. For me, that was always a high priority in whatever I was doing.

Chuck Yeager

#33. Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own.

Chuck Yeager

#34. I ran the astronaut school for six years, and I was the commandant and when I finished in '65, 26 of my guys went into space as NASA astronauts that I trained.

Chuck Yeager

#35. Your responsibility to be ready for the fight, never ends.

James Yeager

#36. Just before you break through the sound barrier, the cockpit shakes the most.

Chuck Yeager

#37. She was the best model because she not only had perfect facial features, but a great body and wasn't ashamed to show it. It was impossible to take a bad photo of her. Bettie Page was always ready for the camera's eye.

Bunny Yeager

#38. If you don't read my book, I'm not coming to your birthday party.

Tim Yeager

#39. o have good intentions is irrelevant and misleading. All evil that has ever been done in the universe was done with good intentions. You must measure effect, impact, and consequence, not intentions. - Holy Scrolls of Soeck, Thirteenth Binding Fifteenth Stanza

Aaron Lee Yeager

#40. The gilding holds the eye just long enough to let God enter the soul. The two-dimensional image does not require interpretation, and therefore doesn't stand between you and God the way it does in three-dimensional western art.

Robert C. Yeager

#41. They all wanted to model for me because they knew I wouldn't take advantage of them.

Bunny Yeager

#42. If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing.

Chuck Yeager

#43. I was just confident my work was good.

Bunny Yeager

#44. Make the most of what you have and enjoy being female; enjoy being YOU.

Bunny Yeager

#45. The one word you use in military flying is duty. It's your duty. You have no control over outcome, no control over pick-and-choose. It's duty.

Chuck Yeager

#46. 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

#47. You concentrate on what you are doing, to do the best job you can, to stay out of serious situations. And that's the way the X-1 was.

Chuck Yeager

#48. I want to show off how beautiful my subjects are, whether its a cheetah or a live girl or two of them together.

Bunny Yeager

#49. The best pilots fly more than the others; that's why they're the best.

Chuck Yeager

#50. All that I am ... I owe to the Air Force.

Chuck Yeager

#51. I have no regrets about my life. People ask, "If you had to do it all over again, would you do it differently?" No. That's speculation.

Chuck Yeager

#52. Though some will try to deny it, I believe that every woman, at some time in her life, has had or will have the desire to pose nude.

Bunny Yeager

#53. There is no kind of ultimate goal to do something twice as good as anyone else can. It's just to do the job as best you can. If it turns out good, fine. If it doesn't, that's the way it goes.

Chuck Yeager

#54. When I was picked to fly the X-1, it was my duty to fly it, and I did.

Chuck Yeager

#55. It wasn't that the X-1 would kill you, it was the systems in the X-1 that would kill you.

Chuck Yeager