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.

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.

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.

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

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