Top 100 Quotes About Cowboys
#1. 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
#2. I think the Cowboys are one of only two teams in all of sports that engender love and hate to that extreme. The other is the Yankees. You love the Yankees or you hate the Yankees.
Al Michaels
#3. Some areas near Dallas experienced a 3.5-magnitude earthquake, which some blame on fracking. However, scientists say that it was more likely aftershocks from Chris Christie celebrating at the Cowboys game.
Jimmy Fallon
#4. I smoke my cigarettes, staring into his eyes, it feels like we're cowboys on a dusty trail sizing each other up before we shoot each other. My gun is loaded. I don't have to check, the bullet is a dead daughter. I don't know what his bullet is.
Lisa O'Donnell
#5. I like the laid-back, polite, respectful courteous personality cowboys have. Guys almost lay down their life for you if they're your friends. You exist on a handshake rather than a signed contract.
Jeff Kent
#6. I'd purchased it before my trip to the gay rodeo with a bunch of friends many moons ago. Many horses had been saved that weekend as many cowboys had been ridden. ...
Ethan Day
#7. I sacrificed for the Dallas Cowboys when most quit. I put in overtime to try to help young players.
Charles Haley
#8. No cowboys for Canada. Canada got Mounties instead - Dudley Do-Right, not John Wayne. It's a mind-set of "Here I come to save the day" versus "Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker.
Sarah Vowell
#9. 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.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#10. My favorite teams are the Dallas Cowboys and the New York Jets.
Bridget Hall
#11. It's really kind of a luxury for an actor to have the opportunity to show such different types of characters. I actually left 'Cowboys & Aliens' and went straight into 'The Change-Up.' It was kind of a funny change of pace.
Olivia Wilde
#12. According to a British poll, you've only got a one in five chance of achieving your childhood career ambition. Which probably explains why you don't run into that many cowboys, princesses, or space rangers.
Jay Leno
#13. Canada has become trouble recently ... It's always the worst Americans who go there ... We could have taken them over so easy. But I only want the western part, with the ski areas, the cowboys, and the right wingers. They're the only good parts of Canada.
Ann Coulter
#14. There was a time when cowboys respected their horses instead of riding them to death just to show off for a crowd.
Tommy Lee
#15. I'm the only man with a Dallas Cowboys Super Bowl ring who doesn't wear it. I'm a Green Bay Packer.
Herb Adderley
#16. And the main thing was that I wanted to live in south Florida. That's why I left the Cowboys; to live in south Florida.
Jimmy Johnson
#17. I've worn some particularly baggy jeans and cowboys boot combinations after coming back from Austin, Texas. This was ill-advised.
Jamie Cullum
#18. by the end of the week, all the cowboys along the river knew that the only sporting woman in Lonesome Dove had abruptly given up the sport.
Larry McMurtry
#19. 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
#20. No man should have cowboys boots in his wardrobe. That's fair enough, isn't it? Unless you're a cowboy, of course.
Paul Weller
#21. There was no excuse for Dallas Cowboys to lose to Washington. Rivalry or not, Redskins are a bad team.
Jemele Hill
#22. When my friends and I played cowboys and Indians, I was always the Chinese railroad worker.
Robin Williams
#23. I worked the Giants win over the Texans earlier this season. The Giants ran the heck out of the ball. Eli Manning rolled out away from Watt just about every time and changed the release point on his passes. The Cowboys have a road map.
Dan Fouts
#24. I wouldn't think I would coach again, because it would just be hard not being in the Cowboys' blue.
Tom Landry
#25. War is a dumb game thought out by men when they become too old to play cowboys and crooks.
Irma Joubert
#27. Dakota started laughing. You wouldn't have anything back there to help me tame a punk-rock wild child with a disdain for cowboys, would you?
Sara Humphreys
#28. How odd it is that sewing is thought to be 'women's work' when surgeons, sailors, and cowboys sew too. Yet how many female thoracic surgeons are there? And if precision motor activities are thought to be performed better by women, why wouldn't they make better surgeons too?
Gretel Ehrlich
#29. Always have faith in God, Yourself and the Cowboys.
Eddie Sutton
#30. In her experience cowboys were notoriously unreliable, generally unfaithful, and rarely capable of settling at all.
Victoria Vane
#31. People had their image of what a cowboy was, ... A lot of it was perpetuated by the media presentations of the cowboys in fiction and old Westerns. And because of the tenure of the times, African-Americans were left out. As a result, reality was distorted.
Philip Roberts
#32. I'm just a big boy, I'm still just playing cowboys and Indians and astronaut and baseball player and all that stuff that I used to play as a kid.
Bryan Cranston
#33. I always wanted to be a cowboy, and Jedi Knights are basically cowboys in space, right?
Liam Neeson
#34. White domination is so complete that even American Indian children want to be cowboys. It's as if Jewish children wanted to play Nazis.
Ward Churchill
#35. France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything.
Adam Michnik
#36. 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.
Emmitt Smith
#38. I'm pretty sure I could outrun the whole Dallas Cowboys team.
Adrian Peterson
#39. 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
#40. I was up really early. It was the day of my selection tests and interviews to become a Prison Officer. The recruitment process was an absolute joke ... Everyone could have travelled round the world seven fucking times before they hear[d] back from the Service's recruitment cowboys.
Ronnie Thompson
#41. I thought of telling him that if it wasn't for Oklahoman cowboys and Mexican whores having a bit of fun, there would've been no Texans, but that would be counterproductive.
Ilona Andrews
#43. Two sexy cowboys and one curvy female. Read this book to watch a love affair develop. - Ashlynn Tate
Scarlett Avery
#44. The sexual revolution transformed the American West: Now even cowboys can get laid.
Edward Abbey
#45. You grow up readings about pirates and cowboys and spacemen and stuff, and just when you think the world's all full of amazing things, they tell you it's really all dead whales and chopped-down forests and nuclear waste hanging about millions of years.
Neil Gaiman
#46. Oh color me pretty-he's a cowboy. I love cowboys.
Audrey Carlan
#48. All the latchkey children cursed and smashed bottles, teased about underwear, and puffed on those unfiltered cigarettes that only the cowboys could roll.
Bremer Acosta
#49. Thankfully, dreams can change. If we'd all stuck with our first dream, the world would be overrun with cowboys and princesses.
Stephen Colbert
#50. I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians he almost had a fit.
John Hurt
#51. Nothing spells trouble like two drunk cowboys with a rocket launcher.
C.J. Box
#52. Real cowboys wear Wranglers. End of story. Levi's may be chic and trendy, but if you work cattle for a living, you wear Wranglers.
Lori Wilde
#54. No. No, first comes boyhood. You get to play with soldiers and spacemen, cowboys and ninjas, pirates and robots. But before you know it, all that comes to an end. And then, Remo Williams, is when the adventure begins.
Brian K. Vaughan
#55. I admired the work ethic of the cowboys I read about. The idea of these young people taking on this much responsibility was impressive. I would like modern readers to have an appreciation of this.
Walter Dean Myers
#56. Now, I have to - in my defense, I have the say that general knowledge of the deadly nature of cigarettes was not primarily in my mind and nor was it on these poor cowboys, who - many of whom who've died of emphysema since we were shooting.
Haskell Wexler
#57. I always liked the idea of the guitar - because cowboys played the guitar.
Tom Petty
#58. I offer to shake hands with Kyle, but he insists on a high five, something I've never done. I've seen the Dallas Cowboys do it, and it looks like great fun.
Craig Lancaster
#59. Don't worry. These cowboys are all in line. Nice, law-abiding batch here, only want to help you reach your dreams. They're nothing like that last group who rolled through town with branding irons and rape-trusses and shotguns. These are the good guys.
Jeremy Robert Johnson
#60. Don't get me wrong, God Bless the farmers and cowboys. It just wasn't the life I wanted. When writing stories of other lands, I can describe people and places from actual experience. And for someone with an imagination like me, I could see dinosaurs and lost civilizations in the jungle of Vietnam.
Tom Johnson
#61. I am convinced the Dallas Cowboys coaching staff has been winging it the past few years. No consistency.
Ace Antonio Hall
#62. I've seen enough cowboys in my life that I know I don't want one for a husband." ...Victoria
"Every good man I know is a cowboy."
Scarlett Dunn
#63. If the Cowboys and Titans ain't playing, I'm not interested.
Tanya Tucker
#64. Jessica Simpson attended boyfriend Tony Romo's football game. The Cowboys quarterback had the worst game of his career. It's a bad year for the name Simpson. Even O. J. is pissed - he feels like they're making his name look bad.
Chelsea Handler
#65. I have been a Cowboys fan since I was a little bitty boy. And my dream has finally become a reality, of not only just playing a professional, becoming a professional athlete, but playing for the team that I always wanted to play for.
Emmitt Smith
#66. A new cologne is coming out. It's for cowboys, and it's made from cow's manure. That way the women will be on you like flies!
Bill Maher
#67. I know a lot of cowboys and I've done a little work on ranches with cattle, and those people become your friends, and keep their word.
Tommy Lee Jones
#68. A lot of old guys in movies are like cowboys - they talk like cowboys and they dress like cowboys.
Val Kilmer
#69. I'm South American, and growing up in New York, I had the total stereotypical way of thinking of what Texas was about. I'm like, Texas. Big. Cows. Cowboys. Cowboy hats and cowboy boots. And barbeque.
Paula Garces
#70. Wait a minute. Are you limping?" Before he could speak, she said, "You can ride, though, right?"
"I assume you're referring to a horse?"
She smiled and jammed her hands down on her abundant hips. "Cowboys," she muttered under her breath as she sat back down.
B. J. Daniels
#71. Behind the semi-elliptical bar four cowboys who had never been near a cow sang western songs which sounded as if they had originated in the far east.
Ross Macdonald
#72. "It looks as though it was put in by an Indian." He later backtracked: "I meant to say cowboys."
Prince Philip
#73. Cowboys don't go around breaking hearts.
Missy Lyons
#74. I came from a very intellectual neighborhood. When we played cowboys and Indians as kids, I had to be Gandhi.
Robert Frost
#75. All the screen cowboys behaved like real gentlemen. They didn't drink, they didn't smoke. When they knocked the bad guy down, they always stood with their fists up, waiting for the heavy to get back on his feet. I decided I was going to drag the bad guy to his feet and keep hitting him.
John Wayne
#76. When boys played "guerrilla warfare," which was their version of cowboys and Indians, the enemy side would have thorns glued onto their noses and say "hello" all the time.
Jung Chang
#77. Po Campo had given him a hailstone dipped in molasses and he sat licking it and feeling alternately happy and sad while the men got dressed and prepared to be cowboys again.
Larry McMurtry
#78. Westerns were always my favorite things when I was little. And it always bothered me when cowboys were too clean in movies, or when they wore their guns like they had an outfit on. It always worked better when a guy looked sweaty and smelly; I hadda believe, I hadda believe that.
Michael Keaton
#79. Real cowboys don't line dance. We like to dance nice and close. Close enough to polish our belt buckles.
Cat Johnson
#80. And there's nothing wrong with spinsters, anyway. They have nice cats and little bowls full of candy. Mrs. Bailey and Mrs. Newitz are the kindest ladies you'll ever meet, and they have nips of whiskey in their tea like cowboys.
Catherynne M Valente
#81. The anti-Japanese resistance was as familiar a theme in North Korean cinema as cowboys and Indians was in early Hollywood.
Barbara Demick
#82. Jake and Hunter are two sexy strapping cowboys who will leave you begging for way more!
Scarlett Avery
#83. 'Brokeback Mountain' takes all your conceptions of America, and the Western, and cowboys, and sexuality, and love, and it stirs them all up.
Jake Gyllenhaal
#84. I'm sort of a Walter Mitty. I got fewer brain cells than most people, so when I got friendly with cowboys, I started rodeoing. When I was calf-roping, there was something about the dirt that made me feel clean.
James Caan
#85. fusing themselves into a single new genre about partying all night with gangsta bitches screwing cowboys to the nasty beat that leads to Jesus.
Tim Dorsey
#86. 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.
Emmitt Smith
#87. I grew up in Orange County, without a team. I never affiliated myself with the Chargers, south of me, or the Raiders, north of me. I've always followed the Dallas Cowboys. I've been a huge fan since the early '90s.
Stephen Colletti
#88. My first cat was named Cowboy, after the Dallas Cowboys.
Jenna Bush
#89. Lawyers are the new three-button, white-collar, cuff-shooting cowboys. They fulfill all the cowboy criteria. Workingmen with arcane skills. They can be both good and bad, sheriffs and gunslingers.
A.A. Gill
#90. Cowboys had guitars. And they sang country 'cause they lived in the country.
Robbie Robertson
#91. Besides good schools, a good airport, and the Cowboys, Dallas had golf courses, and golf was fast becoming an obsession with me.
Charley Pride
#92. Spending that many hours in the saddle gave a man plenty of time to think. That's why so many cowboys fancied themselves Philosophers.
Charles Marion Russell
#93. You won't see me taking it easy on the Cowboys because I'm from Texas, you won't see me cheering for the Cowboys because I'm from Texas. I'll be a Redskin, through and through.
Robert Griffin III
#94. I figured somebody wrote a story who had a typewriter and I thought that movies were made by the cowboys and that they just said, 'Okay, you fall off the horse this time.'
John Sayles
#95. As a child, I'd always liked cowboys and Indians stories where there were two layers - gruesome in the foreground but funny in the background.
Anthony Browne
#96. These cumbersome vehicles were as convenient as if dinosaurs had survived to be used by cowboys for driving cattle
Barbara W. Tuchman
#97. You can scare off a lot of cowboys just by looking mean, I guess.
Larry McMurtry
#98. Here she barked out her greetings in Italian, anxious to disassociate herself from the horseless American cowboys and above all from her own kind, the truly lost and unwanted, who move like leaves around the edges of the world, gathering only long enough to wait in line and see if there is any mail
John Cheever
#99. Europeans have always thought of U.S. presidents as either naive, as they did with Jimmy Carter, or as cowboys, as they did with Lyndon Johnson, and held them in contempt in either case.
George Friedman
#100. Living in Dallas, I root for the Mavericks and the Stars and the Cowboys, but I've always pulled for the Chicago Cubs. I enjoy watching them play.
Lee Trevino
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