I never rode a bull - I'm not that stupid.
I never rode a bull - I'm not that stupid.
It was very much like Norman Rockwell: small town America. We walked to school or rode our bikes, stopped at the penny candy store on the way home from school, skated on the pond.
I owned the world that hour as I rode over it. free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the clouds, but how inseparably I was bound to them.
I Worked in the family auto body shop, lifted weights, and rode a few Victory Sports Indoors.
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.
Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ.
So while I was studying, I rode my Trials bike, then I moved to roadracing.
He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
Mostly it would be those who rode in a particular even would hang out with those who rode in the same event.
Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.
At first I wanted to be a jockey. I rode horses in Cleveland but I kept falling off and I was afraid of horses. So there wasn't much of a future in it.
That was in the days when everyone rode a bicycle, and the journal had a circulation of over one hundred and twenty-five thousand weekly, so my verses and illustrations became known to a fairly large public.
I rode in a nine-day charity ride recently, averaged 43km a day and still finished in the lead group. I'm 38, not quite finished yet.
I rode into the dawning world of television in 1944 on a train.
I don't think people were betting on me, but they were giving me a chance. I think I rode a wave there, by being different in appearance than the girls who preceded me.
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