You'll probably get three horses and you have to draw a good buckin' horse. That's mighty tough.

I can remember sittin in a cafe when I first started in rodeo, and waitin until somebody got done so I could finish what they left.

Sometimes a hard day's work is easier than a lot of things you can meet in life.

Sit tall in the saddle and hold your head up high. Keep your eyes fixed where the trail meets the sky, and live like you ain't afraid to die. Don't be scared...just enjoy the ride.

And takin' a bath in the creek. That's the stuff that really made it worthwhile. Anybody can stay in a motel.

You get to where you kind of like it, and It's a habit That's hard to break. I still find myself sittin' in a cafe, like a pizza parlor.

When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.

But if they ever saw a sunrise on a mountain morning/Watched those cotton candy clouds roll by/They'd know why I live beneath these Western Skies.

So it's probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill.

I admire bull riders for their passion and the uniqueness each one of them has.

Why not just do something a little more on the gentle side?

Your voice can be made loud to speak against ungodliness and injustice and not promote it.

But I'm really enjoying my retirement. I get to sleep in every day. I do crossword puzzles and eat cake.

We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.

Perhaps," he said, "we should discuss our arrangements, then.

Ninety-nine percent of all work on self is attitudinal.

I shun authors, and would never have been one myself, if it obliged me to keep such bad company.

Educate yourself as much as you can with life. Just go out there.

We are connected, like it or not, to the ancestors of our biological families, and their templates

The biggest thing you need to be successful with it is a quarterback who wants to be involved in the decision-making process and not just merely want to execute plays sent in to him.

We need to have every single school in America immediately deploy a protection program proven to work —and by that I mean armed security.