Flying Ace Inspirational Quotes (12)

You don't think much of the individual, because you don't think you've hit him and you hope that he will bail out or something it's the aeroplane you've hit . . . normally it was more of a game if you like, you were outwitting and shooting down another aircraft, you were simply hitting metal.

When you don't have an education, you have to use your brains.

Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.

. . . It is as though horror has frozen the blood in my veins, paralyzed my arms, and torn all thought from my brain with the swipe of a paw. I sit there, flying on, and continue to stare, as though mesmerised, at the Cauldron on my left.

I mean, I had fast motor cars and fast motor bikes, and when I wasn't crashing airplanes, I was crashing motor bikes. It's all part of the game.

No guts, no glory. If you are going to shoot him down, you have to get in there and mix it up with him.

Better to die voluntarily crashing than to have the enemy send you down in flames.

To be a great pilot you have to make a pact with the devil, but don't let him swallow you up.

I did the 23 hour nose-route to the top of El Capitan in 6 hours and 18 minutes! I can make this work.

It is wonderful how cheered a pilot becomes after he shoots down his first machine his morale increases by at least 100 percent.

The heavens were the grandstands and only the gods were spectators. The stake was the world, the forfeit was the player's place at the table, and the game had no recess. It was the most dangerous of all sports and the most fascinating. It got in the blood like wine. It aged men forty years in forty days. It ruined nervous systems in an hour.

Reforms come from the bottom. No man with four aces requests a new deal.