My best year I made $25,000. Of course, that was back in the '70s.
You'll probably get three horses and you have to draw a good buckin' horse. That's mighty tough.
Some guys work 125 to 130 rodeos a year. They're just goin' all the time.
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.
Shoot, every time you get on an animal, you take your life in your hands.
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.
This record is probably as easy as anything I've ever done.
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.
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.
Anything to do with the land, I love.
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.
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.
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.
You hope your buddies will win so you don't have to loan them any money.
And takin' a bath in the creek. That's the stuff that really made it worthwhile. Anybody can stay in a motel.
Sometimes a hard day's work is easier than a lot of things you can meet in life.
To me, Garth, he's kind of like my guardian angel. It's like every time I need some help, he's there.
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.
