Quotes About Rodeo

I think about rodeo every day. I miss it. It's what gave me purpose.

I always packed around this guitar my mother gave me before I left home, I would write songs and play them for my buddies at the rodeos and local bars we would frequent.

They gave me the chaps and hat and everything. I looked like a real cowboy. I walked around the rodeo and thought, I am a real cowboy and thought everyone thought I was a real cowboy.

I grew up in Arizona and have a lot of buddies that are cowpokes.

I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up.

I could hang on a few bulls. And the guys I was rodeoing with, we all took care of each other. They became my family.

PBR Bulls are the talent, the cowboys are the props and both are tasked with putting on a great show for the audience

I couldn't do country, with all due respect to all country music artists. My parents dressed me up with a cowboy hat and we'd go to the rodeo when I was younger and it traumatized me for life.

Gene Autry was a pioneering star in the early days of music, radio, film, television and rodeo performances. I am proud to posthumously honor such an inspiring role model.

...heaven wouldn't be like this earth, this tormented earth ruled by evil forces that tossed humanity to and fro like a slow clown in a two-bit rodeo.

In high school I barely made the rodeo team. But I wasn't good enough to start, so I just rode the bench.

I'm naked under this dress. Naked as a jaybird, she said pointedly and looked at the matron. Oh, my! She'll have to be broken! Mrs. Phillips said and smiled. Well, dear, we're the rodeo capital of Kansas. Bronco busting is our specialite. She pronounced the word in a foreign sounding way.

I'm divorced and I've been to the circus and seen the clowns. This ain't my first rodeo.

I don't think rodeo is cruel at all. Bullriding is the only man-animal event that makes sense.

Wade worked his rope, readying it for the next calf, telling himself he didn't care if Abigail had fallen for Dylan's charm, didn't care if they were going out tomorrow night, didn't care if they got hitched and had a passel of kids. Dylan was slipping on the gloves Maddy had fetched as he passed Wade. "Must be losing my touch," he mumbled. Wade smothered the grin that fought for release.

The horses forced into the chuckwagon races die of heart attacks, broken necks, broken legs, and other injuries. It'd be easy to get off on western tradition without this bloody spectacle. Dude, it's the Old West, not ancient Rome!

I always had to have a day job, working on other people's ranches or construction or whatever. I was making a little bit of money rodeoing, but between the both of them it wasn't much of a living.

I hate cowboys. There's nothing I can do to them a horse has not done

I grew up around rodeo culture and a lot of farms.

Rodeoing is about the only sport you can't fix. You'd have to talk to the bulls and horses, and they wouldn't understand you.

Rodeo riders are the last of the true chivalrous groups of people. It's a place where the competition is really pure.

I'm sort of a Walter Mitty. I got fewer brain cells than most people, so when I got friendly with cowboys, I started rodeoing. When I was calf-roping, there was something about the dirt that made me feel clean.

I worked for Mack Altizer, who ran Bad Company Rodeo, in Del Rio. Those guys, even though they were cowboys, were all hippies. We were always the black sheep of the rodeo world. From there I went on to Paris, France, where I worked in this Wild West show.

I grew up with the Highwaymen, which was Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson. Mom and Dad rode rodeo, so country music was always in the house and the car. They threw in some Dolly Parton, too.