The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business is to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down.

I shall never ask any pilot to go on a mission that I won't go on.

Fighting in the air is not a sport. It is scientific murder.

Never count on the crowd to take care of you.

There is a peculiar gratification in receiving congratulations from one's squadron for a victory in the air. It is worth more to a pilot than the applause of the whole outside world.

The excitement of automobile racing did not compare with what I knew must come with aeroplane fighting in France.