You hope your buddies will win so you don't have to loan them any money.
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.
So it's probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill.
I only won $250 all summer. And then I got crippled. I had a horse step on me while performing and it was messed up for a while.
My best year I made $25,000. Of course, that was back in the '70s.
When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.