Eddie Rickenbacker Quotes about Fighting

I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know, and I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.

I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know, and I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.

Eddie Rickenbacker

Fighting, Nails, Grim Reaper

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

Eddie Rickenbacker

Fighting, Risk, Enemy

The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business in to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down. His trained hand and eye and judgment are as much a part of his armament as his machinegun, and a fiftyfifty chance is the worst he will take or should take except where the show is of the kind that . . . justifies the sacrifice of plane or pilot.

Eddie Rickenbacker

Eye, Fighting, Sacrifice

The smallest amount of vanity is fatal in aeroplane fighting. Selfdistrust rather is the quality to which many a pilot owes his protracted existence.

Eddie Rickenbacker

Fighting, Vanity, Quality

Eddie Rickenbacker (2012). “Fighting the Flying Circus”, p.48, Tales End Press

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

Eddie Rickenbacker

Sports, Military, Fighting

And I have yet to find one single individual who has attained conspicuous success in bringing down enemy aeroplanes who can be said to be spoiled either by his successes or by the generous congratulations of his comrades. If he were capable of being spoiled he would not have had the character to have won continuous victories, for the smallest amount of vanity is fatal in aeroplane fighting. Self-distrust rather is the quality to which many a pilot owes his protracted existence.

Eddie Rickenbacker

Congratulations, Character, Fighting

Eddie Rickenbacker (2012). “Fighting the Flying Circus”, p.48, Tales End Press

Eddie Rickenbacker Quotes about Fighting

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