Top 14 Quotes & Sayings by Red Adair

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American celebrity Red Adair.

Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Paul Neal "Red" Adair was an American oil well firefighter. He became notable internationally as an innovator in the highly specialized and hazardous profession of extinguishing and capping oil well blowouts, both land-based and offshore.

American - Celebrity | June 18, 1915 - August 7, 2004

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I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about a year and a half later, I'm always going to the cemetery.

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Never fear a job, always respect it, and always leave yourself a hind door to escape. May your hind door always be open.

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The good Lord put oil and gas there for us to find and use, and we'd better do it.

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With bombs and fires, you get only one mistake.

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If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.

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Retire? I don't know what that word means. As long as a man is able to work and he's productive out there and he feels good - keep at it.

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Throughout my years, I've had the pleasure of assembling and training what I believe to be the best group of people in the world. People with the presence of mind to deal with any flare-up, including my own. People who share the belief that nothing is impossible.

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It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and packing, it's the best smile in the world; and there's nobody hurt, and the well's under control.

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I've got cut half in two, once, and blowed up a time or two, but nothing permanent.

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I've done made a deal with the devil. He said he's going to give me an air-conditioned place when I go down there, if I go there, so I won't put all the fires out.

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The only thing more expensive than hiring a professional, is hiring an amateur.

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I've traveled all over the world, but I don't think there is any place better than Texas.

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I’ve done made a deal with the devil.

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If you think that hiring professionals is expensive, try hiring amateurs

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