Word: bulling
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...bull riding looks insanely painful. What's the worst injury you've ever had? None of mine have ever been that serious. I broke some ribs and punctured a lung one time and needed to be back riding in about two weeks. I broke both bones in my lower leg one time and was back to competition in two and a half weeks. I had 11 screws and a plate put in my leg. But never anything that's been real life-threatening...
...there more to bull riding than just hanging on tight? You have to keep your chin down, tucked. That's the key to being able to stay on for eight seconds. If you allow your chin to come up in the air during the course of a ride, it's going to allow your upper body to get leaned back...
...guys seem to get jerked around a lot. Is that just part of bull riding? If you do it right, you won't get jerked around. It's more like a give and take. You're never ever going to be as strong as a 2,000-pound bull...
...have a favorite bull? A favorite one of mine was a bull named Hollywood. He was really big and mean and you never knew what he was going to do. So when you got on him, you knew that you better have everything in line or it wasn't going to be good for you. Then there was another bull named Mossy Oak Mud Slinger. Everybody wanted to draw him, but if you made one little mistake, you would buck...
...What goes through your mind when somebody hands you a $1 million check? You feel pretty happy. I always knew I was going to ride bulls for a living, or hoped that was what I was going to do. But I never had any idea that I would be able to make the living that I've been able to. I owe every bit of it to the guys who started the Professional Bull Riders. Without them, I'd be no different than all the really good bull riders before me that rodeoed all their lives and when they were...