Red Adair
Red Adair
Paul Neal "Red" Adair was an American oil well firefighter. He became notable as an innovator in the highly specialized and hazardous profession of extinguishing and capping oil well blowouts, both land-based and offshore...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionOther
Date of Birth18 June 1915
CityHouston, TX
CountryUnited States of America
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With bombs and fires, you get only one mistake.
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The only thing more expensive than hiring a professional, is hiring an amateur.
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I’ve done made a deal with the devil,
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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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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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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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The good Lord put oil and gas there for us to find and use, and we'd better do it.