My partner and I won the race, and I threw my hat into the air and bent to pick it up. Everyone started laughin' because I had split the back end of my pants out, and I wasn't wearing shorts.

My partner and I won the race, and I threw my hat into the air and bent to pick it up. Everyone started laughin' because I had split the back end of my pants out, and I wasn't wearing shorts.

I don't know what makes a guy want to write songs and sing, but if you've got a message, you want to get it across. When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.

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

I had to give everything I had to one event if I wanted to excel.

In fact my son subscribes to Pro Bull Rider magazine.

Tires were so bald on the truck that the air was showin' through, and I had to drive fifty miles an hour all the way out there, because the vibration was so bad.

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

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

Mostly it would be those who rode in a particular even would hang out with those who rode in the same event.

They were so good that you just had to sing the song to them once and they got it. It's amazing. Sometimes it didn't come out the way you wanted, but it was good.

You hope your buddies will win so you don't have to loan them any money.

I've had this song in a drawer for a long time, maybe seven or eight years. Every time I'd do an album, I'd take it out and listen to it, and always liked what it had to say. Plus when Garth came in and sang on it, that made it really special.

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

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

My best year I made $25,000. Of course, that was back in the '70s.

To me, Garth, he's kind of like my guardian angel. It's like every time I need some help, he's there.

Sleepin' in the truck wasn't so bad. Shoot, I kind of liked that, myself.

If you're lucky enough to draw a good horse, you still have to ride him, then the next ones.

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

I always was one who didn't take things for granted. But I think I do appreciate things more now. The small moments of joy that we find each day are so much more precious now than when I looked at them before.

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.

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

I'm healed up and I feel great. After going through the fire, it's great to be out performing again.

Some guys work 125 to 130 rodeos a year. They're just goin' all the time.

Anything to do with the land, I love.

Shoot, every time you get on an animal, you take your life in your hands.

This record is probably as easy as anything I've ever done.

The breeding programs for the bulls have improved significantly. The bulls are at a much higher caliber.

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 days work is easier than a lot of things you can meet in life.

If youre lucky enough to draw a good horse you still have to ride him then the next ones.

I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product.

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.

I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done.

Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.

They haul you up there for, you know, week after week in this kind of star chamber proceeding. Then at the end of it they say, well, we found nothing, but now it's time for special counsel.

The difference between talking on your cell phone while driving and speaking with a passenger is huge. The person on the other end of the cell phone is chattering away, oblivious.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

The big battle at the end of DW isn't drawn from history, but it's influenced by history, certainly.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

I did know that the book would end with a mind-boggling trial, but I didn't know exactly how it would turn out. I like a little suspense when I am writing, too.

If he didn't fall in love he would have never come back near the end of the film. Because, what man is going to dishonor himself so that he comes back in front of the man that took a woman away from him... and warns her to save her life?

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.

Pacifist propaganda and the resolutions of the parliamentarians encouraged such treaties, and toward the end of the nineteenth century their number had increased considerably.

Will Arnett is one of the funniest guys I know. He has seen it all and done it all and come out the other end pretty savvy and pretty strong.

I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.

A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.