American Quotes

I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle it's not going to be satisfying.

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

Even good people are obliged to deceive.

Racing is a very selfish, self-centred, self-glorifying thing. My wife's life for 14 years was centered around me. It was all about me. It was all for my ego.

More people should apologize, and more people should accept apologies when sincerely made.

That's the reason some schools of thinking don't rule out a destruction of the Chinese military potential before the situation grows worse than it is today. It's bad enough now.

That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it.

My solution to the problem would be to tell the North Vietnamese Communists frankly that they've got to drawn in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the stone age.

I think there are many times when it would be most efficient to use nuclear weapons. However, the public opinion in this country and throughout the world throw up their hands in horror when you mention nuclear weapons, just because of the propaganda that's been fed to them.

Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you're not a good soldier.

We should bomb Vietnam back into the stone age.

Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.

Sometime in the future - 25, 50, 75 years hence - what will the situation be like then? By that time the Chinese will have the capability of delivery too.

If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting.

When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.

To me, Garth, he's kind of like my guardian angel. It's like every time I need some help, he's there.

This record is probably as easy as anything I've ever done.

They were so good that you just had to sing the song to them once and they got it. It's amazing. Sometimes it didn't come out the way you wanted, but it was good.

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

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.

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.

My best year I made $25,000. Of course, that was back in the '70s.

Mostly it would be those who rode in a particular even would hang out with those who rode in the same event.

In fact my son subscribes to Pro Bull Rider magazine.

If you're lucky enough to draw a good horse, you still have to ride him, then the next ones.

I've had this song in a drawer for a long time, maybe seven or eight years. Every time I'd do an album, I'd take it out and listen to it, and always liked what it had to say. Plus when Garth came in and sang on it, that made it really special.

I don't know what makes a guy want to write songs and sing, but if you've got a message, you want to get it across. When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.

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.

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