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When a test pilot comes off a flight, there is typically another pilot who is going to take it up, a...
WALLY SCHIRRA

We spent a lot of time in simulators. We were going to do it right.
WALLY SCHIRRA

When people have asked if I'd like to go in the Shuttle, I said you don't get to fly it, exc...
WALLY SCHIRRA

Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo d...
WALLY SCHIRRA

I saw the booster, not Sputnik, flying by, and I said, maybe this is the way we should be going, not...
WALLY SCHIRRA

I don't go along with going to Moon first to build a launch pad to go to Mars. We should go to M...
WALLY SCHIRRA

John Glenn craved the publicity. I think even John would admit that. When he went into politics, tha...
WALLY SCHIRRA

Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first air...
WALLY SCHIRRA

At the end of our NASA careers, no one had a place for us in the military.
WALLY SCHIRRA

Kids today don't want to get married. Too many of their friends have been married and divorced a...
WALLY SCHIRRA

Another real problem was over putting our helmets on for re-entry, because we all had severe head co...
WALLY SCHIRRA

Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He had to do something to look good. The Apollo ...
WALLY SCHIRRA

I remember seeing war hero Jimmy Doolittle fly a Gee Bee racer there. He was my childhood hero. Many...
WALLY SCHIRRA

I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there f...
WALLY SCHIRRA

Each test pilot I know considers him, or herself, now that there are women, to be the very best. It&...
WALLY SCHIRRA

NASA should start thinking about this planet.
WALLY SCHIRRA

I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on...
WALLY SCHIRRA

I've always thought space station is a great name. It should be like a gas station where we go f...
WALLY SCHIRRA

I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford th...
WALLY SCHIRRA

When a man looks across a street, sees a pretty girl, and waves at her, that's not a rendezvous,...
WALLY SCHIRRA

[Along with a gallery of photos displayed throughout, the book comes with a DVD that has save-for-yo...
WALLY SCHIRRA

After the Apollo 1 crew was lost, we said that we wore a black armband for a few weeks, and we wear ...
WALLY SCHIRRA

This morning I drove the back roads to our Mercury launch pad, Complex Fourteen. There was a plaque ...
WALLY SCHIRRA

always that sibling rivalry.
WALLY SCHIRRA

The Real Space Cowboys,
WALLY SCHIRRA

John's going to get some unbelievable surprises, ... Some people get quite sick in space and it's qu...
WALLY SCHIRRA

[Still] Jolly Wally, ... delighted that John is going up, instead of me. He needs the flying time, I...
WALLY SCHIRRA

I liked that the book brought von Braun to the surface. People didn't know much about him. He was a ...
WALLY SCHIRRA I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gat...
WALLY GEORGE I am always the 'good guy', and I take on the idiotic jerks of the nation.
WALLY GEORGE

I lost a company. So what? It's just stuff. Can't take it with you.
WALLY AMOS

Email is the greatest thing.
WALLY AMOS

Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.
WALLY AMOS

I believe, along with many others, that you must first ask for what you want before you can have it.
WALLY AMOS

In some areas I am more noted for reading then I am for cookies!
WALLY AMOS

Nothing is an obstacle unless you say it is.
WALLY AMOS

It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's impor...
WALLY AMOS

However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from...
WALLY LAMB

The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
WALLY LAMB

Here is a girl who is pretty in a quiet way. I bet she's had a very sad life.
WALLY LAMB

Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.
WALLY LAMB

I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
WALLY LAMB I know when Jamie McMurray puts his helmet on, he's going to drive as hard as he can whether he'll b...
WALLY DALLENBACH On first glance, one could argue that all three of these paintings are all alike. The palette is alm...
WALLY MASON You don't need to remind me.
WALLY BUONO When you look at why this team is 9-0, I don't think it's necessarily because the offense is that mu...
WALLY BUONO Harvey did a nice job of playing to our weakness. And we don't shoot well. We had some good looks, s...
WALLY KESLING Tyler Emmert is going to come in here and compete very well.
WALLY BUONO

I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
WALLY LAMB The impacts of this inflexible law have been real and devastating,
WALLY HERGER

Regardless of any unpleasantness in my life, I still get up every morning and look for positive thin...
WALLY AMOS

The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
WALLY LAMB In North Carolina the only burning that is allowed is vegetation that is growing on a lot where the ...
WALLY HOLLIS You're not going to whine after this ride like Lisa Marie Presley, are you?
WALLY DALLENBACH I think first it's a testament to how James has gotten better every year he's played. He continues t...
WALLY VICKERS Doing so this month in the context of the Council's ongoing process seems appropriate and reasonable...
WALLY WALKER I was disappointed to hear [the Kansas City deal] wasn't consummated, but it does show we do have a ...
WALLY BUONO I hope we can play better than that. Sometimes the score is distorted. We did what we had to do. We ...
WALLY BUONO We have been proud to call Seattle Center home court for four decades. Were the city to proceed with...
WALLY WALKER Over the past 11-plus seasons, the Sonics have the fifth-best winning record in the NBA including fo...
WALLY WALKER

I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The de...
WALLY LAMB

If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
WALLY LAMB

All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth...
WALLY LAMB

Love is like breathing. You take it in and let it out.
WALLY LAMB

Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were...
WALLY LAMB It's been great with Paul. I think I complement his game, because I don't dominate the ball that muc...
WALLY SZCZERBIAK The toughest thing is that, you know, we're a little bit lean on our marketing dollars, and we're pr...
WALLY SMITH He's like the Energizer Bunny, kind of like Steve Nash, ... kind of brought the glory back to that s...
WALLY SZCZERBIAK I meant no harm by the screen I set. I just tried to set a good, hard, legal screen and I think I di...
WALLY SZCZERBIAK I hate to keep harping on it, but we're young and we don't have the people to run in and out like we...
WALLY KESLING We gave up 111 points, that's not good. They knocked on our door the whole fourth quarter, but we fo...
WALLY SZCZERBIAK It doesn't matter who gets the shots in the fourth. Trenton was making plays. We were milking him. H...
WALLY SZCZERBIAK I just tried to show the team that I was healthy last year and I was capable of what I was capable o...
WALLY SZCZERBIAK We made wholesale changes. A whole new coaching staff. It's a fresh start for pretty much everyone. ...
WALLY SZCZERBIAK Criticism is going to come while you're injured, but you just have to work through it, stay mentally...
WALLY SZCZERBIAK

I know it's a crock of shit. I ain't offering you happily-ever-after. I'm offering you... happily-ma...
WALLY LAMB I am not confident that we can get it done before tonight. We want to pay Bobby fairly and according...
WALLY BUONO My coaching was like it was from outer space. The girls said they felt like they were playing in mud...
WALLY SANCHEZ Our Northern California congressional district has been ground zero for many tragic events from an o...
WALLY HERGER Why should you ask blood be spilled for a cause that is not in the interest of the American people?
WALLY HERGER Each year, I have the honor of recommending young men and women for appointment to the U.S. military...
WALLY HERGER In 1938, Lloyd Anderson and some of his climbing buddies here in the Northwest were hard-pressed to ...
WALLY SMITH

I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
WALLY LAMB In my many years of coaching, he is the most focused in terms of the important aspects of his life a...
WALLY GOODWIN

It was a really great time for her. She was single and dating and beautiful in New York in the '60s ...
WALLY AMOS

I don't want to come across like this whole thing is a downer,
WALLY AMOS

The harder they work, the more fortunate they become.
WALLY AMOS

Life is neither good nor bad,
WALLY AMOS

It's so important to believe in yourself. Believe that you can do it, under any circumstances. Becau...
WALLY AMOS

I always wanted to have another cookie store, ... So 30 years later, we have another cookie store.
WALLY AMOS Faith and Timber Lake are always strong. Lemmon is new to the conference and is an unknown for us. W...
WALLY STEPHENS Nineteen distinguished years is all you could hope for from Nate as a player and a coach. He made a ...
WALLY WALKER

When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street....
WALLY LAMB We have to improve in all areas, we can't stay status quo,
WALLY BUONO We go to these 'Victory With Honor' clinics; our kids have to attend and Pine Hill kids have to atte...
WALLY SANCHEZ A very tricky situation. Some of the salaries are at the point of being out of whack, really out of ...
WALLY BUONO

It's the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins in...
WALLY LAMB Cibola will still be good, because (coach Ray Rodriguez) does a good job, but when you don't have th...
WALLY SALATA We used up the amount of space and equipment we had there.
WALLY DONNELLY There's a long way to go, but the industry is responding, and it doesn't seem like there's any recog...
WALLY SNYDER We played hard, we played with intensity, we flew around. Were we as sharp mentally? No. Our guys we...
WALLY BUONO They had the momentum at that time. Was it a good call or a bad call? I'm not going to say it was a ...
WALLY BUONO We have to raise our level of intensity. I think they'll understand. We have to respond and rebound.
WALLY BUONO We'd like more production out of a lot of things, our running game is one of them, ... You have to b...
WALLY BUONO If you want to win, you make calls like that. If you worry about the consequences, you keep on losin...
WALLY BUONO Everything we do from this day forward is about doing better.
WALLY BUONO He's not a baby,
WALLY BUONO We played hard but we didn't play smart. Chances are running out on us and those guys better underst...
WALLY BUONO When we were 11-0 and came here some people thought I was sarcastic when I said I see no benefit in ...
WALLY BUONO A win for us [against Edmonton] solidifies what we have tried to accomplish for the last 10 months,
WALLY BUONO A lot of people tune in for the wrecks, no doubt about that.
WALLY DALLENBACH They even run a few training sessions each year.
WALLY DONNELLY He showed me some guts tonight. They kinda made us work for this win and my horse responded when I a...
WALLY HENNESSEY Our respect and affection for Nate will not waver, no matter how paradoxical that he is moving to ou...
WALLY WALKER I think we completely lost our composure. We were up and it was like we were just trying to find a w...
WALLY SZCZERBIAK We're hoping before Feb. 16 comes we can wrap this up.
WALLY BUONO

All the time we were there, you could see that dead squirrel right out in plain sight. Whenever anyo...
WALLY LAMB We recorded it at a place called Prairie Sun Studios, and it's an old chicken farm, so there were al...
WALLY INGRAM Faith has numbers and good athletes. Timber Lake and McIntosh will also put together good teams.
WALLY STEPHENS

I didn't respond to him. Couldn't speak at all. Couldn't look at his self-mutilation--not even the c...
WALLY LAMB I was an All-Star in this league, and it seemed like some people forgot that, for whatever reason.
WALLY SZCZERBIAK [He] is one of those virtuoso guitar players. Sometimes I equate him to the flamenco Jimi Hendrix. Y...
WALLY INGRAM

Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
WALLY LAMB The teams that finished at the low end of the totem pole, they'll get the impact players. If you're ...
WALLY BUONO You can't put a value on the confidence (Miles) gives the (Tony) Tillers and (Ryan) Philips and Sam ...
WALLY BUONO Anne has demonstrated to our fans and to the whole WNBA that she is one of the top coaches in the hi...
WALLY WALKER We're looking to expand people's financial literacy. There's lots more people can do, if they only k...
WALLY DONNELLY

However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences-and I stray pretty far from m...
WALLY LAMB These are guys who are difference-makers.
WALLY BUONO They never quit and we never quit, but the difference was they ran out of gas in the last four minut...
WALLY SANCHEZ

We are like water, aren’t we? We can be fluid, flexible when we have to be. But strong and destruc...
WALLY LAMB What a great race that was. We were head and head coming down the stretch, and He Wants It All start...
WALLY HENNESSEY

The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
WALLY LAMB It's nice to get that first win. I thought our seniors Ross (11 points and six steals) and Johnson (...
WALLY KESLING There is one area where consumers can find big savings and that's on meals. Stores are popping up al...
WALLY KONRAD It was just back and forth game. It was a tough loss for us, and I thought they really got the benef...
WALLY SZCZERBIAK We're staying headquartered in Palm Beach County, but we're building the new facility to keep up wit...
WALLY SANGER You can't argue that [racing at Daytona] is a lot of fun to watch from a fan's perspective. It's clo...
WALLY DALLENBACH It goes from small to big and from the barnyard to the circus.
WALLY INGRAM The proposition we have lived by in this country is that you can give information as long as it's tr...
WALLY SNYDER

I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way ...
WALLY LAMB

As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
WALLY LAMB She got the wind knocked out of her when she hit the court.
WALLY SANCHEZ

But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
WALLY LAMB

I remember the odd sensation of living in the middle of that experience and feeling, simultaneously,...
WALLY LAMB

So many bad things have happened to them that they can't trust the good things. They have to shove t...
WALLY LAMB It?s our highest finish ever. It was a pretty productive day.
WALLY CALDWELL He (You're Next) impresses me a little more every time I race him. And he has a lot more speed that ...
WALLY HENNESSEY My brother and I had a reputation for telling real bad jokes. We told the worst jokes in town. As a ...
WALLY HIRSTEIN We fouled the wrong guy.
WALLY SALATA They tried like hell to penetrate, time after time. So for us to hold them to 46 points, I think tha...
WALLY SANCHEZ I love working with the kids. I see kids every year and it is the same story. I ask myself what are ...
WALLY SCHNEIDER I had wanted them so much to be like the other kids. There was no reason for them not to have the ki...
WALLY SNYDER Bottom line in this league is you've got to make shots, especially in the fourth quarter,
WALLY SZCZERBIAK They hit some big shots and played the way they normally play. At times we were not as disruptive de...
WALLY VICKERS

You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be hero...
WALTER SCHIRRA SR. You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be hero...
WALTER M. SCHIRRA SR. You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be hero...
WALTER M. SCHIRRA, SR. Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.
WALLY 'FAMOUS' AMOS It's a rural stretch of road. Obviously you can't cover a quarter or half mile with a camera.
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He who commands an Apollo flight will not command a second one.

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