Ranch Work Quotes

I used to work a lot on ranches where I grew up, and I had to rise at 5:30 in the morning.

If you ask me what I'd rather be doing, well, I'd rather be home in California, watching TV, polishing my tools and working around the ranch.

I know a lot of cowboys and I've done a little work on ranches with cattle, and those people become your friends, and keep their word.

I'm more of a rodeo type guy.

Now I live in the middle of nowhere on a working cattle ranch.

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

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 own a ranch in Texas, so there's always something to do as far as work goes, whether it's tractor stuff or tearing down fence.

New Mexico is my home. It has never been anything but home. The ranch has rivers and canyon, everything imaginable. I can ride, hunt and fish. At the same time, ranching is grueling, difficult work. It's like acting, to be successful at it, you have to work hard. I take it very seriously.

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.

Well, I can do certain jobs because smells don't bother me. But that means I'm usually the one at the ranch cleaning up all the manure.

After the falling out with my father, I worked on a couple of ranches - thoroughbred layup farms, actually - out toward Chino, California. That was fine for a little while, but I wanted to get out completely, and twenty miles away wasn't far enough.

I'm a widower with three sons and seven grandchildren. One of my sons is my partner on the ranch.

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

I want people to see how hard my husband and kids work on the ranch.

I keep my horses out in the open, but when I was working the ranches, I had to clean the stalls. It was a horrible job.

I've worked the ranch. I've hauled sugar beets from the field.