Right before Mag Seven I did a movie called The Bull Rider.
I rodeo-ed for nine years. That's my other life.
I'm sort of a Walter Mitty. I got fewer brain cells than most people, so when I got friendly with cowboys, I started rodeoing. When I was calf-roping, there was something about the dirt that made me feel clean.
There's a big difference between me and a real, legitimate working hand, or a world-champion rodeo cowboy. I play 'em, and I aspire to be like that, but those guys are tough.
I rope steers in team roping events. There's a header and a heeler on a roping team, and I'm the heeler.
Saddle bronc is the quintessential rodeo sport - not the chaos of bull riding or the thrashing of bareback riding. It might be harder than both.
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 got a horse when I was eight or 10 years old. And dad used to take me to the rodeo back home. I got into it big time.
A good old rodeo never hurt anyone.
If you haven't seen me lasso, you haven't lived.
I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up.
