Flight Quotes

You have to think it was by design, that they didn't want to go on a flight with the chance of the passengers working against them. If you've got the threat of a bomb or a gun you can hold people at bay. These guys were strong-arming people with box cutters and knives. They wanted the numbers to be on their side. - Dave Esser

You have to believe that you are going to succeed with this flight because a water landing would be very dangerous... I'm using the same capsule I've used for seven balloon flights, and it's seaworthy. - Steve Fossett

You guys ought to be aware, and we have got to make it clear to everybody we talk to, when we launch the next flight, there is still going to be foam come off the tank. - Wayne Hale

You even drove your own car down if you wanted to. I drove down. I was single and I had a car down there. I drove back and saved the money they gave you for the flight. - Dick Hoak

You don't want to recruit a guy who has to change two, three planes to get here. You can get on a plane in Chicago and get here (directly). You can be in Dallas or Houston and fly right here. That's a different recruiting than asking a player from Pennsylvania. He has to stop in Chicago and change planes. You don't recruit Pennsylvania. You don't recruit to Tidewater Beach because the kid from Virginia has to fly to Atlanta first. But the kid from Atlanta can fly non-stop. I look for cities where it's a non-stop flight. - Jerry Glanville

You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful. - Paul Theroux

You could say nobody's really looking forward to a six-hour flight to California. But I think everybody is now. - Shawn Chacon