104 My Cowboy Quotes

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Famous My Cowboy Quotes

I don't walk around with a cowboy hat. I did get a tattoo that says 'cowboy' that's a bit of an over-compensation, probably. — Ronnie Dunn

My daddy, he was somewhere between God and John Wayne. — Hank Williams, Jr.

I always wanted a guitar. I always wanted to be a cowboy singer because I also listened to Hank Williams, and he would always sing these neat romantic songs. — Dick Dale

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. — Blake Shelton

I'm from Texas, and I would love to do an old-fashioned gun-slinging Western. — Jensen Ackles

Saddle your dreams before you ride em. — Mary Webb

The thoroughbred wanderer — Sir Richard Francis Burton

The chief contribution made by white men of the Americas to the folk songs of the world ——- the cowboy songs of Texas and the West ——- are rhythmed to the walk, the trot, and the gallop of horses. — J. Frank Dobie

Sit tall in the saddle and hold your head up high. Keep your eyes fixed where the trail meets the sky, and live like you ain't afraid to die. Don't be scared...just enjoy the ride. — Chris LeDoux

A good old rodeo never hurt anyone. — Taylor Kitsch

I'm a hard man to fight and an easy man to please... A Rock n' Roll Outlaw on a Sweet Romance.. I Want To Be Your Man. — Ashley Purdy

Raise up your glasses against evil forces; Whiskey for my men, beer for my horses. — Toby Keith

He's just like a stallion. Wild and kicking on the outside, but a heart soft as satin on the inside. Just waiting for the right girl to break him in. — Alexandra Bracken

You can do anything that you wanna do, but uh-uh, don't step on my cowboy boots. — Hank Williams, Jr.

I've always liked to shoot from the hip. This is the perfect fit for me ... I'm willing to earn my spurs, because once again, after 18 years I'm back to being a rookie. — Reggie Miller

Short My Cowboy Quotes

  • Life's a rodeo and all you have to do is stay in the saddle. — George Jung
  • She's a good girl, crazy about Elvis, loves horses, and her boyfriend, too. — Tom Petty
  • A catcher and his body are like the outlaw and his horse. He's got to ride that nag till it drops. — Johnny Bench
  • When I was a kid, if a guy got killed in a western movie I always wondered who got his horse. — George Carlin
  • Nobody ever saw a cowboy on the psychiatrist's couch. — John Wayne
  • There is about to be a big cowboy boot in your ass if you dont shut up. — Jim Ross
  • Black beauty - he's a dark horse. — Tim Vine
  • I grew up as a country boy. — Ian Somerhalder
  • I was introduced to country music around a campfire on a farm. — Gavin DeGraw
My cowboy quote Cowboys ain't made by boots or hats. They're made by the man inside em that still respects his raisi
Cowboys ain't made by boots or hats. They're made by the man inside em that still respects his raising.

Hot Cowboy Quotes

Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. — Will Rogers

I wore hot pants and cowboy boots and I thought, 'What have I gotten myself into?' — Alek Wek

I have a huge crush on President George W. Bush. I saw him at a recent fundraiser, and he`s a babe. He`s got that Ronald Reagan charm. I think he`s hot. I respect his wife, but if he wasn`t married I`d be putting on my cowboy boots and coming around. — Roseanne Barr

I've always been really hot on westerns. All my life growing up, cowboy, cowboy, cowboy. — Morgan Freeman

Hardy was every loose-limbed cowboy in warn denim, every pair of blue eyes, every battered pickup, every hot cloudless day." -Liberty — Lisa Kleypas

Cowboy Quotes

Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are. - Unknown Author

Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are. — Unknown Author

Don't be afraid to go after what you want to do, and what you want to be. But don't be afraid to be willing to pay the price. — Lane Frost

We've got a Muslim for a president who hates cowboys, hates cowgirls, hates fishing, hates farming, loves gays and we hate him! — Hank Williams, Jr.

No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle. - Winston Churchill

No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle. — Winston Churchill

For the drover's life has pleasures that the townsfolk never know. — Banjo Paterson

Conflict follows wrongdoing as surely as flies follow the herd. — Doc Holliday

Justin Salinger showed up one day with a pink cowboy hat on and everyone else got really annoyed because somehow he'd managed to get the pink cowboy hat. — Alex Cox

There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can't think of one at the moment. — Paul Theroux

You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy. — Lyndon B. Johnson

You see, in this world, there's two kinds of people, my friend - those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig. — Clint Eastwood

Cowboy Movie Quotes

It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. You take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have. — Clint Eastwood

Ever notice how you come across somebody once in a while you shouldn't have messed with? That's me. — Clint Eastwood

A boxing match is like a cowboy movie. There's got to be good guys and there's got to be bad guys. And that's what people pay for - to see the bad guys get beat. — Sonny Liston

When I was 9, I went to a birthday party. We were supposed to see a cowboy movie, but the programming got screwed up and we saw 'The Bad Seed' instead. Horrifying. For years I was frightened of girls with pigtails. — Robert Englund

I think a lot of African-American kids don't have fathers to teach them how to dress, so you end up being taught by pictures in magazine and movies. You see cowboys, Indians, old Hollywood films, Cary Grant. It has an effect on you. — Andre Benjamin

Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted to do was to play gangsters and cowboys in movies. — Brion James

Dyin' ain't much of a living, boy. — Clint Eastwood

A lot of old guys in movies are like cowboys - they talk like cowboys and they dress like cowboys. — Val Kilmer

A man's got to know his limitations. — Harry Callahan

Every man has got to know his limitations. — Clint Eastwood

Cowboys And Horses Quotes

I came in with my idea of what a cowboy would wear, but then I met some real cowboys and they said that I rode the horses well, shoed the horses, but no good cowboy would be wearing a pair of Levi's. I had to get a good old pair of Wranglers. — Steve Kanaly

You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people. — Will Rogers

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut. - Warren Buffett

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut. — Warren Buffett

There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse. — Robert Smith Surtees

It's a lot like nuts and bolts - if the rider's nuts, the horse bolts! - Nicholas Evans

It's a lot like nuts and bolts - if the rider's nuts, the horse bolts! — Nicholas Evans

A pony is a childhood dream. A horse is an adulthood treasure. — Rebecca Carroll

Renaissance cowboy/raconteur Pop Wagner ...deadpan funny ...his presence is like meeting Woody Guthrie and Will Rogers riding a single, many colored horse. Pop is a kind of 'textile genius' who is able to spin, at once, both yarn and rope. — Ron Miles

A horse gallops with his lungs, perseveres with his heart, and wins with his character. — Federico Tesio

A lovely horse is always an experience.... It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words. — Beryl Markham

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

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More My Cowboy Quotes

I remember my son wanted to go to bed with his cowboy boots on, and we had this fight for like an hour. Then I realized that the only good reason I had for him not to do it is because I didn't want him to. There was really no other reason. And finally I said, "OK, fine." It was a great victory for me, because I realized it doesn't really matter. — Michael J. Fox

My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky. — Alan Moore

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

I was feeling real good and real manly. Until a real cowboy walked by and told me I had my hat on backwards. So much for my career as a cowboy. — Michael Biehn

I'm scared of snakebites - that's the origin of cowboy boots, protection - but my toes need to breathe. — Gavin McInnes

I never miss a good chance to shut up — James Patterson

Silence is sometimes the best answer — Dalai Lama

My dream was to go to Nashville. I had my sights set on my dream. I used to have an '89 Toyota Ford truck. On the front of the truck, I had this license plate with cowboy boots and a guitar that I had airbrushed at Wal-Mart. It said 'Chasin' A Dream.' That was kind of my motto. — Josh Turner

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

I didn't always know, but I always wanted to. I always wanted to be the very best receiver the Cowboys ever had. That was my goal coming in as a rookie and my goal throughout my career: being the best they ever had, going up in the Ring of Honor. — Michael Irvin

I had done my first picture and I didn't have anything to do for awhile. I was asked to come back to New York and do Bus Stop in the role of the cowboy opposite Kim Stanley. — Dick York

Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a raindance. — Texas Bix Bender

It don't take a genius to spot a goat in a flock of sheep. — Will Rogers

Never slap a man who is chewing tobacco. — Will Rogers

It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor. — John Ford

I was going to move back to Dallas, and my goal was to work at Channel 8 and be a sportscaster and cover my Cowboys and live happily ever after. — Chris Harrison

If I'm playing country, I gotta have my country hat and my cowboy boots. I gotta have a voice, and the third thing, I gotta have I guess a little music to keep me in the right mind, a little pre-show something to get ya going. Lots of AC/DC, or I'll sit on youtube and find all kinds of stuff before we take the stage to get pumped up. — Hank Williams III

I wore a lot of vintage clothing. I dressed like a reporter, with a little card in my hat. I had these fantasies of who I wanted to be, so I'd dress like an explorer, a cowboy. I dressed up like Elton John a lot too. That was another period. — Illeana Douglas

Did I ever tell you my pet peeve?' No,' I said. People who dress up their pets to look like Little Lord Fauntleroys or cowboys, clowns, ballerinas. As if it's not enough just to be a dog or cat or turtle. — Jerry Spinelli

My first cat was named Cowboy, after the Dallas Cowboys. — Jenna Bush

I spent two months in Fredericksburg, Texas, when I was 8, while my father shot a movie, and I loved it. I just embraced the whole cowboy culture. I got myself a pair of awesome boots and a cowboy hat. — Alexander Skarsgard

Simple. Pared down. Timeless. The ties were never too thick or too thin; the pants were never too flared or too skinny. In my life with Dad, he wore Western apparel because we went riding - jeans, cowboy boots, the turquoise belt buckle. But it was all very simple, and that classic look is very 'Ralph Lauren.' — Jennifer Grant

I don't think about it, 'Wow! I'm the quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys.' For me, this is my job. This is what I've been preparing to do. And I really want to win badly. — Tony Romo

I love black leggings with cowboy (I mean cowgirl!) boots, and other-slightly less trendy-things like my boys' Wrangler jeans and my husband's worn deerskin work gloves. I love most things country, because country, to me, is home. — Ree Drummond

I get to actually experience what it would be like to be a psycho, which is not a fun one, or to be a cowboy, or to be a weird character of some sort. For me, it suits me. It suits my personality. I'm an emotional kind of person anyway. — Josh Holloway

That's where I got my start and where I'll continue to work, but I can't tell you the number of films between Drugstore Cowboy and Curly Sue that I auditioned for and wanted that didn't choose me. — Kelly Lynch

My favorite teams are the Dallas Cowboys and the New York Jets. — Bridget Hall

My grandpa was a cowboy. He roped cattle out in Texas and Arizona. Growing up, I'd see him maybe once a year and he'd always get me on a horse at some point. But each time I'd have to learn again. — Austin Butler

If anybody asks me what I attribute the longevity of my career to, then I say it's because I was never satisfied with being a cowboy in the plains of Spain and later I was never satisfied with just playing a detective in San Francisco, and constantly just pushing the envelope. — Clint Eastwood

My personal style has developed from growing up in Oklahoma, middle America, where I was wearing jeans and cowboy boots and where people were not running around in miniskirts. — Suzy Amis

I was freaking out when Brooks & Dunn were breaking up. I thought 'We play a ton of rodeos, and I thought this was such a cowboy deal, and I don't wear a hat. They might not think I'm a cowboy. That might sound ridiculous to a lot of people, but apparently, it meant something to me. I wound up with a cowboy tattoo from my elbow to my wrist. — Ronnie Dunn

I played to win. When I was a child, my brothers and I played cowboys and Indians in the park, and I was always an Indian who got captured. That was a learning experience; they were showing me that as a woman I was going to be captured. But in a metaphorical sense, I think I did eventually become a cowboy. — Ita Buttrose

I have at all times tried to use my influence toward protecting the property holders and substantial men of the country from thieves, outlaws and murderers, among whom I do not care to be classed. — Clay Allison

The cowboy music twanged in the roadhouse and carried across the fields, all sadness. It was all right with me. I kissed my baby and we put out the lights. — Jack Kerouac

My father's a protector. My father's old-school. He's a cowboy. — Paul Walker

Well, of course the general idea was dreamed up by the advertising agency and so my job was to realize that. And we down to Lubbock, Texas, usually and onto a ranch and we would pick cowboys who looked the part and photograph them under dramatic situations - rounding up wild horses or running through streams and then reaching in and taking a drag on a cigarette. — Haskell Wexler

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