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

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.

Those are serious questions of war and peace, of freedom or tyranny, whether or not there is ever going to be a hope of us instilling some democratic systems in a part of the world that frankly is breeding hate and destruction directed right at us.

Americans sometimes say to me that they have no class system themselves. All human beings have class systems. It can be based on a different thing in a different country, but the thing about breeding is, you can't buy it. You can't buy class.

Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.

Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out of it.

It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.

Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.

Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing fresh experience to body and mind, breeding new desires, and exploiting Nature's cupboard for their satisfaction.

First, they were bred when I was not capable to observe or before I was born; likewise the breeding of men is of a different manner from that of women.

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

We were in opposition to the decision to go to war. But after the war happened, it was clear that you could not sit and look-there would be a breeding ground for terrorism or a new collapsed or failed state named Iraq!

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.

Gay sex is a veritable breeding ground for disease.

You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.

Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse of children. When contempt for sex underlies teachings, this creates a breeding ground for abuse.

The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.