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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Trust your inner voice.

Establish a system of rewards and punishments

Your private self must become the same as your public self.

The throne rumbled. A wave of gale-force anger slammed int

Not what we have but what we use not what we see but what we choose-these are the things that mar or bless human happiness.

When I'm swinging well, nobody hits the golf ball any better than I do.

I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is.

I'm against Trans-Pacific Partnership now. I'll be against it after the election. I'll be against it when I'm president.

I sense a thousand strands of sorrow are sewn into an inch of my spirit.

If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.