Red Adair quote: "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."

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

Throughout my years, I've had the pleasure of assembling and training what I believe to be the b...
RED ADAIR

I've done made a deal with the devil. He said he's going to give me an air-conditioned place...
RED ADAIR

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

It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you'r...
RED ADAIR

I've done made a deal with the devil. He said he's going to give me an air-conditioned place when I ...
RED ADAIR

Retire? I don't know what that word means. As long as a man is able to work and he's productive out ...
RED ADAIR

I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about a y...
RED ADAIR

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

It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when y...
RED ADAIR

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

With bombs and fires, you get only one mistake.
RED ADAIR

Retire? I don't know what that word means. As long as a man is able to work and he's product...
RED ADAIR

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

Nickelback offered me a full-membership position. That's a great thing.
DANIEL ADAIR

I was a hired drummer for 3 Doors; there wasn't an opportunity for me to write.
DANIEL ADAIR

Never run after a man or a bus, there's always another one in five minutes.
CHERRY ADAIR

The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way benea...
GILBERT ADAIR

Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideolo...
GILBERT ADAIR

The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effe...
JOHN ADAIR

We need cancer because, by the very fact of its insurability, it makes all other diseases, however v...
GILBERT ADAIR

I'll be working with everybody so I'll get to know fairly well what different issues are coming up i...
ANDY ADAIR

I grew up on a farm so I thought driving a fire truck would be like handling a grain truck. But the ...
ANDY ADAIR

I don't think any of the firefighters keep this job just for the pay. They take pride in being firef...
ANDY ADAIR

With 9/11, it brought more to the public's attention there could be a call that firefighters might n...
ANDY ADAIR

In New York -- whose subway trains in particular have been ''tattooed'' with an energy to put our ow...
GILBERT ADAIR

We ''need'' cancer because, by the very fact of its insurability, it makes all other diseases, howev...
GILBERT ADAIR

At the moment, they police don't come down here unless they have to - that's why the bus was set on ...
JOHN ADAIR

Teamwork is no accident.It is the by-product of good leadership.
JOHN ADAIR

So far, we've had 7.36 inches (of rain) for the year. Normal is about 4.51, so we're well above it.
JOHN ADAIR

The police aren't the most popular people right now,
JOHN ADAIR

You skin is so soft. Smells like…”

She had to tilt him to get this other arm free and...
CHERRY ADAIR

What's cool is he has dreadlocks. That makes piano OK in rock, if the piano player looks cool.
DANIEL ADAIR

We thought it would do OK, but we weren't sure. We didn't have a crystal ball, and we didn't say, 'O...
DANIEL ADAIR

We're a controversial band, so big that everyone wants to hate us. We get a lot of bad press. I don'...
DANIEL ADAIR

We'll be really tight by the time we get down there to you guys. Everyone will have a really good ti...
DANIEL ADAIR

Chad brings the bulk of the ideas to the table, and we all polish and rework the ideas he comes up w...
DANIEL ADAIR

We hope it shows ? yes these things are effective. We want concrete evidence.
DEBBIE ADAIR

Prevention is a whole lot less costly than treatment ? and maybe more effective.
DEBBIE ADAIR

That?s what we?re trying to build. Two more groups to go.
DEBBIE ADAIR

Look at you. You made a hole-in-one.
DEBBIE ADAIR

In New York -- whose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with an energy to put our own...
GILBERT ADAIR

Markets have taken the view that the government is doing everything it can against terrorism and to ...
ROBERT ADAIR

All of the assets in our portfolio are performing well and offer promise for the future and I contin...
ROBERT ADAIR

He's not putting through a Mickey Mouse increase. He's putting through a substantial increase that p...
ROBERT ADAIR

This provides an exciting new focus for our exploration programme, particularly as production in Egy...
ROBERT ADAIR

The next few months should prove very interesting with the drilling programme about to start in Bulg...
ROBERT ADAIR

I started it; I knew a landlord.
RITA ADAIR

We know we need to take care of these people for a few months.
RITA ADAIR

I had to make it happen, I had to do what I know best.
RITA ADAIR

The system really blocked us big time, the government. It's been very difficult to knock down that d...
RITA ADAIR

Things don't seem terribly different to me. In terms of client needs and resident needs, I don't see...
RITA ADAIR

This is grass roots at its best. It's powerful stuff.
RITA ADAIR

The job produced minimal disincentives and we were able to achieve the improved smoothness criteria ...
BILL ADAIR

Rich really embodies the kind of results of the work that we do as an organization. Our job really i...
BILL ADAIR

A person who is enjoying life, working, going about their business and then all of a sudden they hav...
BILL ADAIR

It's such a magnificent piece of ground, and that's why we're working so hard on it.
JIM ADAIR

We had a lot of the momentum, but we just came up against a very physical team and every time there ...
TREVOR ADAIR

Everything was just working in our favor.
TREVOR ADAIR

The one thing I wanted most in life was for my dad to see me coaching in the Final Four. He won't ge...
TREVOR ADAIR

It just happened so fast. Just two months ago he was driving, living a normal life.
TREVOR ADAIR

If that ball had gone in, I am convinced we would have won the game.
TREVOR ADAIR

Do they believe? Yes. They believe that they can beat anybody.
TREVOR ADAIR

We know they have a nice point guard. We have to contain him. We have to make them take tough shots ...
BRANDON ADAIR

I can't take any plays off. You have to have a heart and soul for the game. I take what the defense ...
BRANDON ADAIR

We pressure full court. We don't let teams walk the ball up the court and catch their breath. We're ...
BRANDON ADAIR

It will bring a change in your life.
TAMMIE ADAIR

It's something that both installations have in common.
TAMMIE ADAIR

The most challenging thing in doing this is the new base realignment and where a conference like thi...
TAMMIE ADAIR

The big thing was just getting them to focus. We just want them to take with them a positive attitud...
TAMMIE ADAIR

Having something to say is overrated.
ADAIR LARA

Women who buy perfume and flowers for themselves because their men won't do it are called 'self bast...
ADAIR LARA

We get a lot of gratification watching these kids develop and achieve their goals.
DONNIE ADAIR

And they're traveling very, very fast together and I think last night, we saw a few accidents.
DONNIE ADAIR

Every night, we're losing a lot of sleep over the Olympics, watching it, yes.
DONNIE ADAIR

You can’t just come out and say what you have to say. That’s what people do on airplanes, when a...
ADAIR LARA

It's going to put a human face on the priesthood. It's going to show four guys who are pretty normal...
JOE ADAIR

What I struggle with is the mandatory celibacy. But I've always had this unfolding desire to serve t...
JOE ADAIR

I had visions of a seminarian in a hot tub with a bunch of women.
JOE ADAIR

If by chance some day you're not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I've ...
RED SKELTON

I'm nuts and I know it. But so long as I make 'em laugh, they ain't going to lock me up.
RED SKELTON

Running like a bunny with his tail on fire.
RED BARBER

I like to get where the cabbage is cooking and catch the scents.
RED SMITH

Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. ...
RED SKELTON

If I may I would like to recite the Pledge of Allegiance and give you a definition for each word. RED SKELTON

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.
RED AUERBACH

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.
RED AUERBACH

When I'm talking to a large audience, I imagine that I'm talking to a single person.
RED BARBER

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.
RED AUERBACH

He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted.
RED AUERBACH

One of the standing jokes of Congress is that the new Congressman always spends the first week wonde...
RED SKELTON

If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
RED BUTTONS

Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.
RED SANDERS

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while fo...
RED AUERBACH

Last night I had a revelationSomehow I have to make you payIt's all about manipulationAnd what it ta...
RED DELICIOUS

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while f...
RED AUERBACH

You whites make all the ammunition.
RED CLOUD

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.
RED AUERBACH

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.
RED SKELTON

We do not want riches, we want peace and love.
RED CLOUD

I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train...
RED CLOUD

I am always joking and always clowning, giving and helping.
RED BUTTONS

I don't like to compare clubs or players from way back. It's different today. Your ballparks...
RED SCHOENDIENST

When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling...
RED BARBER

Then, there was Cary Grant. He spent three hours a week in hospitals teaching nervous people how to ...
RED BUTTONS

When there were just eight teams in each of the big leagues, I was always told, 'It's hard t...
RED SCHOENDIENST

This is Red Barber speaking. Let me say hello to you all.
RED BARBER

The white man has got the gold out of the land which belonged to the red man.
RED CLOUD

Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime.
RED SKELTON

When people ask me if Dean Martin drank, let me put it this way. If Dracula bit Dean in the neck, he...
RED BUTTONS

They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one; they promised to take ...
RED CLOUD

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
RED AUERBACH

Winning isn't everything, but losing is nothing.
RED SYMONS

Phil is obviously a good coach. You don't win that many games without being a damn good coach, ... R...
RED AUERBACH

That's something I don't want to get into. I'm here. That's what counts.
RED AUERBACH

Most of your great coaches do some teaching and developing of players. Phil may be able to do it, bu...
RED AUERBACH

The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhap...
RED AUERBACH

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
RED AUERBACH

Just do what you do best.
RED AUERBACH

Congress: Bingo with billions.
RED SKELTON

The only football players in my time were fellows who really loved to play football. They were not i...
RED GRANGE

He had splendid conformation-broad shoulders, white hair and erect carriage-and was beautifully turn...
RED SMITH

It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players
RED SMITH

I managed Dal Maxvill, and he's now our general manager. I managed Bob Gibson. He's a broadc...
RED SCHOENDIENST

Every football player knows when his time is up.
RED GRANGE

Exercise? I get it on the golf course. When I see my friends collapse, I run for the paramedics.
RED SKELTON

I don't want to be called 'the greatest' or 'one of the greatest'; let other guys claim to be the be...
RED SKELTON

Last night I had a revelation
Somehow I have to make you pay
It's all about manipulation
RED DELICIOUS

When I'm talking to a large audience, I imagine that I'm talking to a single person.
RED BARBER

It's a strange feeling. He has some of my mannerisms. He's a super guy. The red hair looks good. He ...
RED DAWSON

Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampere...
RED HAIRCROW

He is not a candidate. Never has been and won't be. I'm very close to Mack Brown. I have continuous ...
RED MCCOMBS

I've had many writing heroes, writers who have influenced me. ...When I was very young as a sportswr...
RED SMITH

Look at him and you'd think he's 16. Talk to him and you think he's 26. Talk baseball with him, and ...
RED SMITH

My best girl is dead.
RED SMITH

Congress: Bingo with billions
RED SKELTON

The Great Spirit will not make me suffer because I am ignorant. He will put me in a place where I sh...
RED CLOUD

Exercise? I get in on the golf course. When I see my friends collapse, I run for the paramedics.
RED SKELTON

I personally believe that each of us was put here for a purpose -- to build not to destroy. If I can...
RED SKELTON

No matter what your heartache may be, laughing helps you forget it for a few seconds.
RED SKELTON

God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being.
RED SKELTON

Whenever you have a tight situation and there's a close pitch, the umpire gets a squawk no matter ho...
RED BARBER

We do not want riches, we want peace and love
RED CLOUD

Getting the goodness of light-skinned society ... Learn to live among them, learn their education, t...
RED CLOUD

Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness...
RED SKELTON

The natural habitat of the tongue is the left cheek.
RED SMITH

You have to be as fully prepared for the dull game as you are for the great game, or else you won't ...
RED BARBER

Plan your trips to conserve fuel. Do not fill up your gas tank unless needed. Lower your top speed b...
RED CAVANEY

From the time I was a kid, I was always interested in any and all kinds of new business ideas.
RED MCCOMBS

When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling iro...
RED BARBER

It all depends on what the market is, ... When I owned the Spurs, I brought in Larry Brown and paid ...
RED MCCOMBS

Every word I write is like a drop of my blood. If it's flowed passionately and long, I need time to ...
RED HAIRCROW

I think we need a game, ... We need some hitting and some competition.
RED WINGS

We're going to have to learn the rules and how to play,
RED WINGS

They are going to call that. I think it's more important than ever that you play strong positionally...
RED WINGS

Playing in two-on-twos in the corner, you can't pin a guy and hold him to the boards,
RED WINGS

It really slowed things down. Teams were successful playing that way, but it didn't lead to exciting...
RED WINGS

Let's hope we don't hear that word 'trap' anymore,
RED WINGS

When Mark gets going, ... it's impossible to stop that man.
RED WINGS

You never know, ... We just have to win.
RED WINGS

A sign read "Free drinks for billiards competitors only." Hand-lettered below read "All others will ...
RED TASH

He'd always come in and give us hugs and kisses. He liked being a clown.
RED WILSON

daddy,s little girl
RED SOVINE

Ha ha ha! She's another one of those 16-year-old actresses, and she's making an album. Like, NO!
RED WINGS

I'm nuts and I know it. But so long as I make 'em laugh, they ain't going to lock me up.
RED SKELTON

A fellow told me he was going to hang-glider school. He said, 'I've been going for three months.' I ...
RED SKELTON

His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.
RED SKELTON

jovial and in good spirits.
RED WINGS

Baseball is dull only to dull minds.
RED BARBER

It's so cold today even the brass monkeys have stayed home!
RED BARBER

They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to ...
RED CLOUD

I welcome questions. I hate assumptions.
RED HAIRCROW

You don't have to disrespect and insult others simply to hold your own ground. If you do, that shows...
RED HAIRCROW

If you look broadly across the United States -- with the exception of those Midwest markets -- the i...
RED CAVANEY

Time and again our industry has been cleared of any wrongdoing in these matters, and we are confiden...
RED CAVANEY

A waiver right now would be counterproductive for the consumer over time,
RED CAVANEY

If Lady Luck smiles on us there won't be a third hurricane, ... Probably no one is more sensitive to...
RED CAVANEY

... need pay little attention to the oil and gas sector because we're highly profitable, can fend fo...
RED CAVANEY

The market is working. The prices are falling.
RED CAVANEY

What we are trying to say is, tell us what you want, not how to make it happen, ... and at the end o...
RED CAVANEY

It is becoming increasingly evident that the impact of this storm on oil and natural gas operations ...
RED CAVANEY

I don't predict prices, but I think it will definitely be a downward trend.
RED CAVANEY

What happens when we don't have a year like this one?
RED CAVANEY

I continue to be surprised by judgmental native stereotypes and apathy, but if I wasn't that would m...
RED HAIRCROW

I've put in 63 years now in the big leagues as a player, coach, manager. And now just being arou...
RED SCHOENDIENST

[The American Petroleum Institute] and its members condemn price gouging.
RED CAVANEY

It was a crypt where music played to masses of the dead, and McJagger was their desolate pharaoh, a ...
RED TASH

It's unfortunate that it took these circumstance to get these games over here, but it will show San ...
RED MCCOMBS

Weird is my personality, Complicated are my words and Mystery I am but those what gets you to like m...
RED DELACHINA

In a world where nothing exists by itself, where every division of one thing from another is a mispe...
RED PINE

I envisioned him tied in a chair, an iron arrow pointed at his brow. Ah, the power of positive think...
RED TASH

There were lots of things in this lifetime that I'd doubted, precious little I'd known for sure. But...
RED TASH

A professional player is smarter than a college man. He uses his noodle. He knows what to do and whe...
RED GRANGE

Making you a pioneer only means one thing. You were around at the time.
RED BUTTONS

I really like the way our team dug down and played hard and gave ourselves a chance.
RED BERENSON

It's a pity that things weren't arranged so that an empty head, like an empty stomach, would not le...
RED GRAY

If they do the movie with as much quality as they're proving to me, they're going to do a great job.
RED DAWSON

and at that time we'll sit down and discuss whether or not Mike wants to work out an extension. If h...
RED MCCOMBS

We were disappointed he didn't want to come here but we know he has a house in Toronto.
RED WINGS

His quarterbacks could pick apart a defense because he taught them to throw precisely.
RED WILSON

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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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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