I love watching a good horse do what he's bred to do - I guess that's what I like the most about it. And I love to see good athletes do what they're bred to do.

I've always played cards. I can't remember when there wasn't a gambling game going on somewhere, even if it was a craps game in a wheelbarrow on the backside of the racetrack.

The place was built on the premise that people want to gamble, and they may as well do it here. They look after their clientele, and, hell, they treat me like I'm one of their family.

I didn't go to acting school, but I've been observing my fellow man for 66 years now, and I would think that's the best school there is.

I'm a widower with three sons and seven grandchildren. One of my sons is my partner on the ranch.

I rope steers in team roping events. There's a header and a heeler on a roping team, and I'm the heeler.

I've already got my rent paid, and it's too late in my life for me to go around talking up stuff that I don't like or believe in.