Quotes from Chuck Yeager

You get in, You shoot, You get out!

You concentrate on what you are doing, to do the best job you can, to stay out of a serious situation. That's the way the X-1 was.

There is no kind of ultimate goal to do something twice as good as anyone else can. It's just to do the job as best you can. If it turns out good, fine. If it doesn't, that's the way it goes.