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You hope your buddies will win so you don't have to loan them any money.

Chris LeDoux

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Chris LeDoux
Age: 56 †
Born: 1948
Born: October 2
Died: 2005
Died: March 9
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Biloxi
Mississippi
Loan
Winning
Hope
Money
Buddies
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If you're lucky enough to draw a good horse, you still have to ride him, then the next ones. So It's probably 80 percent luck and 20 percent skill.
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I really didn't go that hard, although a couple of years I did. Some guys work 125 to 130 rodeos a year. they're just goin' all the time.
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I'm healed up and I feel great. After going through the fire, it's great to be out performing again.
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The breeding programs for the bulls have improved significantly. The bulls are at a much higher caliber.
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In fact my son subscribes to Pro Bull Rider magazine.
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My partner and I won the race, and I threw my hat into the air and bent to pick it up. Everyone started laughin' because I had split the back end of my pants out, and I wasn't wearing shorts.
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So it's probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill.
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But if they ever saw a sunrise on a mountain morning/Watched those cotton candy clouds roll by/They'd know why I live beneath these Western Skies.
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I only won $250 all summer. And then I got crippled. I had a horse step on me while performing and it was messed up for a while.
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When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.
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And takin' a bath in the creek. That's the stuff that really made it worthwhile. Anybody can stay in a motel.
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You'll probably get three horses and you have to draw a good buckin' horse. That's mighty tough.
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Why not just do something a little more on the gentle side?
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My best year I made $25,000. Of course, that was back in the '70s.
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I always was one who didn't take things for granted. But I think I do appreciate things more now. The small moments of joy that we find each day are so much more precious now than when I looked at them before.
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You get to where you kind of like it, and It's a habit That's hard to break. I still find myself sittin' in a cafe, like a pizza parlor.
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Sleepin' in the truck wasn't so bad. Shoot, I kind of liked that, myself.
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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.
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