Rodeo Events Quotes

When I was about six, I was kind of a cowboy. I'd dress up in boots, straps, hat and bandanna, and my dad would take us to the rodeo.

Rodeo riders are the last of the true chivalrous groups of people. It's a place where the competition is really pure.

I'm more of a rodeo type guy.

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

For movies like The Longest Ride, I got to hang out with cowboys at rodeos and learned how to ride a bull, essentially.

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 raise quarter horses. Mine are mostly thoroughbred cross horses, a little bigger horses than some people like. I sell them or use them on the ranch. A lot of them go to the rodeo arena and some of them go to racetracks.

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.

Some guys work 125 to 130 rodeos a year. They're just goin' all the time.

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

I was in session through the winter and announced rodeos in the summer… There’s an amazing correlation ... in that there’s bull in each profession.

I guess I've always been a groupie. My first date was a bull rider called Tommy Lee Bryant. We'd go to the rodeo every Saturday and Sunday. The bull riders were the cool guys.

I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up.

I directed a movie back in the '90s which had calf roping in it, and I got into it quite a bit back then.

I love horses, and I love all of it. The sights and sounds and smells, the whole genre of Westerns - I love them. And I know they're rare for actors to get to do, and they're even more rare for women to get to do, so I really think I was drinking in the experience on so many levels.