Aggressiveness was a fundamental to success in air-to-air combat and if you ever caught a fighter pilot in a defensive mood you had him licked before you started shooting.--Captain David McCampbell, USN, leading U.S. Navy ace in W.W.II
I never went into the air thinking I would lose.--Commander Randy 'Duke' Cunningham, USN.
Go in close, and when you think you are too close, go in closer.--Major Thomas B. 'Tommy' McGuire, USAAF.
The aggressive spirit, the offensive, is the chief thing everywhere in war, and the air is no exception. --Baron Manfred von Richthofen
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. --Captain Edward V. 'Eddie' Rickenbacker.
If you're in a fair fight, you didn't plan it properly. --Nick Lappos, Chief R&D Pilot, Sikorsky Aircraft.
Do unto the other feller the way he'd like to do unto you, an' do it fust. --E.N.W.