Larry the Cable Guy Quotes

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.

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

I was raised on a ranch in Wyoming, and I've been riding horses most of my life.

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

I'd like to live on horseback and just be a cowboy.

I can't say that I've ever actually got on a horse and roped a cow, no.

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

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.

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

I want to be a Cowboy for life.

Cowboys, just like the word says.

I grew up in southeastern Oklahoma on a working cattle ranch, and it was always very romantic to me: The West, the cowboy, the Western way of life.

I grew up with the Highwaymen, which was Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson. Mom and Dad rode rodeo, so country music was always in the house and the car. They threw in some Dolly Parton, too.

Where I live in Oklahoma, it's all ranchers. My friends are all cowboys and pretty rough guys. If I had a hot tub back there, I may as well have Richard Simmons come over and live with me.

I mean, I grew up riding. I can't ever remember not being able to ride or rope and all that stuff. It was part of my life growing up, so it was fun for me.

I rope steers in team roping events. There's a header and a heeler on a roping team, and I'm the heeler.

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.

I went to Texas a few times for gigs and adopted the cowboy look. Every man, at some point in his life, goes through a cowboy stage - everyone! Well, at least everyone that I look up to!

A good old rodeo never hurt anyone.

I had that upbringing. Of watching 'Bonanza,' watching 'Hee Haw,' which both black and white would watch. I rode horses. I did gun spinning as a kid. I do these things.

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

I rodeo-ed for nine years. That's my other life.

It's been a childhood dream of mine to be a Cowboy, honestly.

Bull riding is fun, but fighting is it.