Quotes from Chris LeDoux

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

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

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

When you get a little older, you think, I'd like to make a little money and stick it away or buy a place - or win the world championship.

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

But if they ever saw a sunrise on a mountain morning/Watched those cotton candy clouds roll by/They'd know why I live beneath these Western Skies.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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 really didn't go that hard, although a couple of years I did. Some guys work 125 to 130 rodeos a year. they're just goin' all the time.

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

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

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

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.

Anything to do with the land, I love.

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

In fact my son subscribes to Pro Bull Rider magazine.

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

If you're lucky enough to draw a good horse, you still have to ride him, then the next ones. So It's probably 80 percent luck and 20 percent skill.

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