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"Of course I was delighted the flight was over, but I still had to worry about cleaning up inside the cabin, I had to worry about the hatch, how to get in the sling, and so on."
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"'Worry' is a word that I don't allow myself to use."
"When things are perfect, that's when you need to worry most."
"I'm not a toy boy, bellybutton band, so I don't have to worry about that. Actually, I never did."
"You've got to just go do what you do - you can't really worry about who was attached to the movie before."
"I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey."
"I've done almost 20 films and I still worry about not finding the next one."
"I'm too busy playing to worry about the movement or the fingerboard."
"My grandmother was a Jewish juggler: she used to worry about six things at once."
"I'm always using a towel around my head. Airports don't worry about me."
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"Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike every Saturday morning to the nearest airport, ten miles away, push airplanes in and out of the hangars, and clean up the hangars."
"Then there was the challenge to keep doing better and better, to fly the best test flight that anybody had ever flown. That led to my being recognized as one of the more experienced test pilots, and that led to the astronaut business."
"But when I was selected, after my very first tour of squadron duty, to become one of the youngest candidates for the test pilot school, I began to realize, maybe you are a little bit better."
"We also knew it would be difficult, because of the financial condition of the family, for me to go to college."
"The excitement really didn't start to build until the trailer - which was carrying me, with a space suit with ventilation and all that sort of stuff - pulled up to the launch pad."
"I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds."
"I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me."
"The pilot looked at his cues of attitude and speed and orientation and so on and responded as he would from the same cues in an airplane, but there was no way it flew the same. The simulators had showed us that."
"Whether you are an astronomer or a life scientist, geophysicist, or a pilot, you've got to be there because you believe you are good in your field, and you can contribute, not because you are going to get a lot of fame or whatever when you get back."
"You've done it in the simulator so many times, you don't have a real sense of being excited when the flight is going on. You're excited before, but as soon as the liftoff occurs, you are busy doing what you have to do."
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