One of the more awesome Sully quotes:

“I had this expectation that my career would be one in which I didn’t crash an airplane.”

Elsewhere, how to ditch a plane into a body of water, just in case you ever find yourself in that position:

He said he knew the plane was in trouble when he heard birds hit the engines and he knew the landing had to be perfect in several ways, he said. “I needed to touch down with the wings exactly level,” he said. “I needed to touch down with the nose slightly up. I needed to touch down at a — at a descent rate that was survivable. And I needed to touch down just above our minimum flying speed, but not below it. And I needed to make all these things happen simultaneously.”