See, decide, attack, reverse.

Of all my accomplishments I may have achieved during the war, I am proudest of the fact that I never lost a wingman.

In combat flying, fancy precision aerobatic work is really not of much use. Instead, it is the rough maneuver which succeeds.

The weapon where the man is sitting in is always superior against the other.

If he is superior then I would go home, for another day that is better.

I opened fire when the whole windshield was black with the enemy . . . at minimum range . . . it doesn't matter what your angle is to him or whether you are in a turn or any other maneuver.

It was my view that no kill was worth the life of a wingman. . . . Pilots in my unit who lost wingmen on this basis were prohibited from leading a [section]. The were made to fly as wingman, instead.

Ridicule is a terrible witherer of the flower of imagination. It binds us where we should be free.

The only thing to prevent what's past is to put a stop to it before it happens.

I directed a movie back in the '90s which had calf roping in it, and I got into it quite a bit back then.

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

As a child, reality is whatever one makes of it.

I don't keep secrets because I'm no good at them!

That’s the key to new and good ideas; they come from having a very broad and multidisciplinary range of interests.

The American people abhor a vacuum.

you got to want it to be good, and I don't want it.

Remember... People can always threaten your very life but they can never take away your dreams.