Rodeo Quotes

• 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.

  Chris LeDoux

  Done, Cafes, Firsts

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• Life's a rodeo and all you have to do is stay in the saddle.

  George Jung

  Saddles

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

  Garth Brooks

  Pain, Joy, Rope

  Song: Rodeo, 1991

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• Sometimes I think life is just a rodeo, the trick is to ride and make it to the bell.

  John Fogerty

  Philosophy, Thinking, Bells

  Song: Rock and Roll Girls

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• There is a rare exception of mainstream sports that have a fatality rate. That's motor sports and rodeo, ... football, baseball, basketball, hockey, you make a mistake and you give up a run or some points. In these two sports, if you make a mistake, it could cost you your life.

  Don Andrews

  Basketball, Sports, Baseball

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• The true meaning of America, you ask? It's in a Texas rodeo, in a policeman's badge, in the sound of laughing children, in a political rally, in a newspaper... In all these things, and many more, you'll find America. In all these things, you'll find freedom. And freedom is what America means to the world. And to me.

  Audie Murphy

  Children, Mean, Texas

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• I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.

  Carrie Fisher

  Smart, Streets, Street Smart

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• MAKE ME AN ANGEL THAT FLIES FROM MONTGOMERY, MAKE ME A POSTER OF AN OLD RODEO JUST GIVE ME ONE THING THAT I CAN HOLD ON TO TO BELIEVE IN THIS LIVIN' IS JUST A HARD WAY TO GO.

  John Prine

  Believe, Angel, Giving

  Song: Angel From Montgomery

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• They gave me the chaps and hat and everything. I looked like a real cowboy. I walked around the rodeo and thought, I am a real cowboy and thought everyone thought I was a real cowboy.

  Michael Biehn

  Real, Hate, Cowboy

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• It seems a fine line between being a matador and being a rodeo clown

  Jase Robertson

  Lines, Clown, Matadors

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• Don't squat with your spurs on.

  Will Rogers

  Cowboy, Spurs, Cowgirls

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• Grandpa Patterson used to say: Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction.

  Debbie Macomber

  Horse, Cowboy, Grandpa

  Debbie Macomber (2013). “Texas Two-Step”, p.98, Harlequin

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• 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.

  Wilford Brimley

  Horse, People, Use

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• I couldn't do country, with all due respect to all country music artists. My parents dressed me up with a cowboy hat and we'd go to the rodeo when I was younger and it traumatized me for life.

  Chris Colfer

  Country, Artist, Cowboy

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• I’m beginning to sense a theme,” Mircea said, tossing his suit coat over a buckskin-covered chair. A moose head with huge, outspread antlers loomed over it, its bright glass eyes looking oddly lifelike in the low light. Mircea took in the room, his expression slightly repulsed yet fascinated. “I believe there is only one thing to say at this point.” What’s that?” Yee haw,” he said gravely, and took me down like a rodeo calf.

  Karen Chance

  Believe, Eye, Glasses

  Karen Chance (2011). “Cassie Palmer Novels 1-5”, p.1317, Penguin

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• Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier 'n puttin' it back in.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• Rodeo Drive is a giant butterscotch sundae.

  Andy Warhol

  Ice Cream, Giants, Butterscotch

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• I wanted to be like my father, who was a cattle man and a rodeo roper. And that was - he was my hero, and I wanted to be more like him.

  Dave Brubeck

  Father, Hero, Men

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• I think that no matter what you do, whether you rodeo, whether you work in an office, you work in the oilfield or you play music for a living, eventually if you do enough of it, the devil in the back of your head tries to turn it into work. You have to find new ways to make it new and make it exciting to keep that drive there.

  Cody Johnson

  Thinking, Play, Office

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• The biggest thing is online shopping. So that you don't have to dress up, go down Bond Street or Rodeo or wherever, go and be intimidated by shop assistants to buy Gucci shoes or a Prada dress. You can just go online and, if it doesn't fit you, send it back. And I think that is the biggest, biggest difference, because that means everybody can do it.

  Jennifer Saunders

  Mean, Thinking, Shoes

  Source: nymag.com

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• When you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.

  Tammara Webber

  Inspirational, Cowboy, Digging A Hole

  Tammara Webber (2014). “Between the Lines: The Complete Series”, p.521, Tammara Webber

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• I had lots of breaks. I guess the one that got my foot in the door was singing the National Anthem at the National Finals Rodeo in Oklahoma City in '74.

  Reba McEntire

  Oklahoma City, Doors, Cities

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. December 25, 2005.

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• It's great to learn more about sports I'm probably less familiar with - stock car racing, rodeo, e-sports - and realize that a lot of the people at the center of those sports bring the same level of passion, commitment and disciple that I try to with football. Sports is a way of life for billions of people around the planet.

  Tom Brady

  Sports, Football, Passion

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• There are literally billions of people on the planet who live in an unimaginable poverty that's not in any way different from the plight of the people in Orchid. And you can't have the splendor of Rodeo Drive without the sweatshops of Indonesia; those two things go hand in hand.

  Tom Morello

  Hands, Orchids, Two

  Interview with Robin Grearson, logger.believermag.com. August 27, 2013.

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• I see the rodeo's in town again.

  Bobby H. Barbee, Sr.

  Wrestling, Wwe, Towns

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