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.

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.

Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.

I was familiar with 'Addicted' for a long time, even prior to the movie, way before it got the greenlight. And when it finally got the greenlight, I was very happy to be a part of it.

I was the most reckless little kid. I only had guy friends. I had a Nintendo, and when I went to normal school, I used to tape it under my desk and then pull it out and play on it.

Anything that happens in your life was meant to happen. It is your destiny. I was destined to have the life I have now, and I can't have any regrets.

As far as the Jets go, I'm competing to play. It will be a heated competition between Kellen and me, and I'm excited about that; I will do it in a respectful way. I have the utmost respect for him because he's a great player. Whatever's best for team will be best for the team and the coaches will decide.

When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.

A man's spirit is free, but his pride binds him with chains of suffocation in a prison of his own insecurities.

When I began work on my first book, 'The River of Doubt,' which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelt's 1914 descent of an unmapped river in the Amazon rainforest, I thought of it as a tale of adventure, exploration and extraordinary courage.

The unconscious in us warns us that in art we have to follow one particular path. And if we follow it, it is not the sign of anunconscious act.On the contrary, it shows that there is in our ordinary consciousness a greater awareness of our unconsciousness.

I love cookies baking. During the winter, they have these candles that smell like cookies, and I always buy like a hundred of them.

And it should be the law: If you use the word "paradigm" without knowing what the dictionary says it means, you go to jail. No exceptions.

I realized crime isn't the only way you can judge people. People can do good things, and people can do bad things. It's probably better to understand people for the good things they do.

It's important to read as much as you can because you never know when you will find the best script that you want to do next. I'm always quite picky in what I read and what I go for.

I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.

One of the crises that we have to deal with is a crisis of law enforcement officials that are not physically capable enough to handle without taking out the gun.

Theorists have wonderful ideas which take years and years to be verified.

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.