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

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.

Intellect is the soul of man, the only immortal part of him.

We see an entire planet which has many limitations.

The sky is the limit as long as you keep the rooms practical, and I have become better at that since I had children. Function, form and organisation are all important.

We do not wish to impoverish the environment any further, and yet we cannot for a moment forget the grim poverty of large numbers of people. Are not poverty and need the greatest polluters?

I'm married to my best friend!

I think there's only one interesting story... and that's struggle.

But little white lies here and there is human nature. Everybody does that.

I'm a simple hillbilly. I don't like eating modern, industrialized, fast food. I grew up eating home-cooked food. So when I'm traveling abroad, like when I recently received a six-month writing fellowship to Iowa in the U.S., I like to cook my own food.

Believe it or not, we will actually be better and happier workers if we are allowed to be better parents. We might even rediscover our capacity for fun.

Any defensive coordinator is worried about two things: a running quarterback and a deep ball. You know, don't get beat deep and don't let the quarterback run, because a big part of your defense can't account for the quarterback as a runner, so he gets a free run.

Standing up for yourself doesn't always involve verbal confrontation. Sometimes it's about not wasting energy on people who are negative.

I don't think even one per cent of the people in this world explore more than 10 per cent of all that this world has to offer. That's a shame!

Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.

I would like to do some serious drama. I really connect with emotional characters who have struggles and a lot of emotion and colors. I don't really want to do anything smiley and cheesy; it's not really my personality when I'm working.

I like individual scents on a girl, so you always recognize her and you keep her separate from other people in your head. I really love Egyptian musk. I've even gone to the mall and sprayed perfumes and just smelled them. I'm creepy. So creepy.

I have no interest in anybody's life that way so it defeats me why people go to that length to pry.

Often I play, especially on television, a lot of smart lawyer people and cerebral types.