“ Pappy has been bucked off, run over and stepped on – in the process he has learned a thing or two.”

• Experience is a great teacher, she just charges too much.
  
  
• The difference between involvement and commitment is explained by a breakfast of ham and eggs. The chicken was involved but the pig was committed!
  
  
• If you never learn to be comfortable with your own company- neither will anyone else.
  
  
• Trust your horse, just don’t trust him too much – Wil Howe
  
  
• If you are going to stand, just stand. If you are going to sit, just sit but whatever you do don’t wobble.
  
  
• If you think the storm is about to blow you out of the saddle- screw your hat down, tighten you cinch and leave spur tracks on whatever your riding.
  
  
• Send my sons and daughters to war if you must- but send yours as well.
  
  
• Your children came through you but they didn’t come by you. – Wil Howe
  
  
• As a young man I had all the answers, as an old man I can’t even remember the questions.
  
  
• If you decide you give a man a piece of your mind, make sure you can get by what’s left.