"I don't know anything about the Appalachian mountains or cowboys and Indians or anything. I just made it up."
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"One thing I can say about the Dallas Cowboys: They have always had talent around them. They have been one of the most talented football teams in all of football."
"I grew up in Dallas, with cowboys. I was the only guy in sixth grade with long hair and an earring. Let's just say I got a lot of, er, flak for being different."
"In the United States, you can put on a cowboy hat and join the country-western neighborhood. If you're down below 14th Street in New York City, that's bohemian; that's left-wing."
"For some reason cowboy sounds better than cowman."
"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."
"I never considered myself a cowboy, because I wasn`t. But I guess when I got into cowboy gear I looked enough like one to convince people that I was."
"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."
"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."
"All of you cowboys, fight for your land."
"There was no excuse for Dallas Cowboys to lose to Washington. Rivalry or not, Redskins are a bad team."
"Any man who'd make an X-rated movie ought to have to take his daughter to see it."
"I never killed a man I didn't have to."
"The sexual revolution transformed the American West: Now even cowboys can get laid."
"We are rough men and used to rough ways."
"I've always been really hot on westerns. All my life growing up, cowboy, cowboy, cowboy."
"My father's a protector. My father's old-school. He's a cowboy."
"A lot of the issues of the Dallas Cowboys yesterday having pressure on Tony Romo, came from the outside pressure."
"Charles Haley changed the way the Cowboys played football in the 90s. And the reason why I say that is because he was such a dominant force coming off the edge, where it took two and three to block him."
"If I'm being forgiving of myself, I could say I'm somebody who was really hungry for experiences. The same thing that would make me go try to be a trail cook on a ranch was the same thing that would make me want to have sex with a couple cowboys while I was there."