“I'm less shy now than I was as a kid. After Flight 1549, my family and...” — Chesley Sullenberger Quote

“I'm less shy now than I was as a kid. After Flight 1549, my family and I had to become public figures and more complete versions of ourselves. I had to teach myself to become an effective public speaker.”

“Bigger airplanes, with two aisles instead of one, provide a better experience overall, and I think it's more comfortable.”

“I had never been so challenged in an airplane that I doubted the outcome.”

“Number One, if there is no America, then the world will be a complete mess.”

“Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and you know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you know Heaven and you know Earth, you may make your victory complete.”

“The thing that I've always been a little bit jealous of is a complete, a total giving to one form, like a genre, and just a mastery of it. My thing is very different. It's a complete embrace of something, but I've never been able to say, 'I believe in this.' The only thing I believe in is that I'm in this perpetual state of disbelief.”