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

Sit tall in the saddle and hold your head up high. Keep your eyes fixed where the trail meets the sky, and live like you ain't afraid to die. Don't be scared...just enjoy the ride.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.

All God's creatures are His family; and he is the most beloved of God who tries to do most good to God's creatures.

What shall become of us without any barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution.

Don't make decisions out of fear. They never get yo anywhere you want to go.

I really felt like we had to have a go to player.

When you go through certain moments of your career and you're struggling, it just takes time. Time heals, when you're a little bit down.

I was living life like in one of those Disney movies, where I genuinely believed nobody was ever going to die

Our lives are of great worth if we accept with good grace the situation Providence places us in, and go on living lovingly.

We exist within the question of God.