Quotes by Alan Shepard

Alan Shepard

Al is on the surface. And it’s been a long way, but we’re here.

Als

Long

Moon

Because of the suit I was wearing, I couldn’t make a good pivot on the swing. And I had to hit the ball with one hand.

Golf

Hands

Swings

Got more dirt than ball. Here we go again.

Balls

Dirt

Golf

I can hit it farther on the moon. But actually, my swing is better here on Earth.

Earth

Moon

Swings

I just wanted to be the first one to fly for America, not because I’d end up in the pages of history books.

America

Book

Pages

I think first of all you have to be there for the right reason.

Firsts

Reason

Thinking

I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on.

Discipline

School

Thinking

If somebody’d said before the flight, ‘Are you going to get carried away looking at the Earth from the Moon?’ I would have say, ‘No, no way.’ But yet when I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon, I cried.

Earth

Moon

Space

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.

Airplane

Airports

Morning

Miles and miles and miles.

Golf

Miles

Railroad Tracks

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Quotes by Alan Shepard

Alan Shepard

Al is on the surface. And it’s been a long way, but we’re here.

Because of the suit I was wearing, I couldn’t make a good pivot on the swing. And I had to hit the ball with one hand.

Got more dirt than ball. Here we go again.

I can hit it farther on the moon. But actually, my swing is better here on Earth.

I just wanted to be the first one to fly for America, not because I’d end up in the pages of history books.

I think first of all you have to be there for the right reason.

I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on.

If somebody’d said before the flight, ‘Are you going to get carried away looking at the Earth from the Moon?’ I would have say, ‘No, no way.’ But yet when I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon, I cried.

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.

Miles and miles and miles.

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