Cowboy Life Quotes

I thought being a cowboy would be a terribly romantic thing to do. But it wasn't. I shoveled a lot of stalls.

It's the ropes and the reins, and the joy and the pain. And they call the thing rodeo.

I died in my boots like a pioneer With the whole wide sky above me.

People tell me how great it must have been to ride horses and stuff. Well, do it for two days straight on dusty days when the cows and horses were really tired.

I wanted to be a cattle rancher when I was young, because it was what I knew and I loved it.

My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd participated in rattlesnake round-ups and swum with copperheads.

I ride really well and I shoot a gun really well. I love the genre. Once I did Westerns, I was hooked. I love them, but there's been very few of them made. I never wanted to play a guy who was acting like a cowboy. I wanted to play someone who had a real life, but was also trapped into situations.

If you haven't seen me lasso, you haven't lived.

I just fell in love with the cowboy way of life.