“Fighter pilot is an attitude. It is cockiness. It is aggressiveness. It is self-confidence. It is a streak of rebelliousness, and it is competitiveness. But there's something else - there's a spark. There's a desire to be good. To do well; in the eyes of your peers, and in your own mind.”

Robin Olds

Robin Olds - “Fighter pilot is an attitude. It is...” 1

Similar quotes

“Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.”

Eoin Colfer
Read more

“Stop comparing yourself with others. If they are good at something, you too are good at something else. Self-confidence is not measured by your own capabilities versus that of others, but by your own needs.”

Stephen Richards
Read more

“Sure and you've got to keep your own spitis up, for there's no one else will do that for you!”

Jaclyn Moriarty
Read more

“Whenever there's something wrong with your writing, suspect that there's something wrong with your thinking.”

Patricia T. O'Conner
Read more

“There's something else there as well, something entirely her own. An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are.”

Suzanne Collins
Read more