These young fire fighters come up to me and they say, "I want to be just like Red." They're wearing four-hundred-dollar boots and gold Rolex watches. They have expense accounts. They're driving big company cars, but they see Red's million-dollar town house and his million-dollar boat and his Mercedes and my Rolls-Royce, and they see how people flock around Red in restaurants, in airports, at football games, wherever he goes, and they say, "Tell me how I can be just like Red Adair." I tell them they'll never be like him. There just isn't any way. To be like him they would have to have been a little boy with no shoes.

Kemmie Adair quoted from An American Hero, The Red Adair Story