Hi I'm Bronc

[Bignate76]

Welcome to the 2nd floor, Noel! Damn fine quit you got there. Keep on keeping on.

'worship'

[Doc Chewfree]

Welcome to the 2nd floor, Noel! Damn fine quit you got there. Keep on keeping on.

[Enough snuff]

Well, itÂ’s been awhile since I posted a sermon and I'm way past the time I can post a HOF speech. This week, I guess I have a topic on my mind. It has to do with fear and our approach and mindset when it comes to quitting and more specifically, our view of the nic bitch. As usual, rodeo will be involved in this object lesson.

I’m dying to do rodeo, but grew up in the city. I had been to a few rodeos, but didn’t know much about it at all other than some dude hops on the back of a mean bronc or bull and tries to hang on for 8 seconds. Now that right there should have kept me from ever trying it, because I didn’t know shit about it. So, I started scouring the internet and I happen to find exactly what I was looking for, a 3 day intense rodeo school. Yep, there is rodeo school where for the small price of $350 you too can learn how to get yourself in the hospital in just about the coolest way possible. This school was in New Caney, TX and was run by a 3 time all-around champ – Lyle Sankey. Lyle’s about as bad ass as they come. He brings it to you direct and straight and doesn’t mess around. He has what he calls a “fantasy” camp for guys like me who just wanted to say we rode a bronc or bull.

When I got there and I told him I didnÂ’t want the fantasy camp but wanted to be a real rodeo guy, he just kind of looked at me pretty puzzled because I was 1. Way too old, 2.) didnÂ’t know a latigo from a lasso, 3.) I donÂ’t think heÂ’d ever seen a sri Lankan before and it confused him.
But, Lyle did his best to make a bronc rider out of me in those days. On the last day, we’re about to have our last go ‘round, and he comes up to me and pulls me aside and says, “look, you don’t have to do this.” I think he was pretty worried that after 2 and a half days of watching me get my ass kicked, he was sure that my luck wasn’t going to last long and that he’d be calling an ambulance that afternoon. I said, man Lyle, why would you say something like that to me. I’m trying as hard as anyone out here. And he looked at me with compassion but in a very stern voice says, because “you are still way too full of fear. You have no confidence in yourself, what we’ve taught you, who you are, and what this sport is all about. All you are doing is going out there and trying to hang on and you can never win just trying to hang on. You have to battle and you have to fight and you have to have the mindset that when you see that rank bronc bucking away in the chute and you have to get on him that you are thinking “ya, this is going to be awesome.” You need to have that look of excitement in your eye and all I see is total fear and that is dangerous. If you look at the champions, you’ll see them – they are calm, cool and collected and if you look in their eyes, you’ll see pure determination, confidence and excitement that they are going to conquer this beast today. Until you can do that, you have no business riding.”

I rode anyway, trying to muster up some ‘semblence of courage and got my ass kicked something awful. A week later, I was at the St Paul Rodeo and getting ready with a whole bunch of world champions. The only reason I was going to get to ride there is because I live in the town and I’m on the committee and the chute boss is a personal friend of mine. The rest of the guys riding are all bad ass riders. To go with the badass riders are the who’s who of bad ass broncs. These things were huge, mean and athletic. As I watched the cowboys get ready, I saw what Lyle was talking about. These dudes were as cool as the other side of the pillow and I’m sitting there shaking like a dog shitting peach seeds. I had absolutely no business being there or on one of those broncs.

A few months later I had gone to some local rodeos and gained some confidence. I got the gleam in my eye and won. It was amazing. It was an amazing ride and I knew it from the minute I arrived at the rodeo grounds. I was just that confident. I wasnÂ’t scared, I was excited.
That’s along damn way to talk about the approach to quitting. I’m seeing way too much of the “dog shitting peach seeds” approach and not enough confidence and determination. This method is true in just about any kind of athletic event. If you are playing football, you gotta hit the other guy harder than he hits you. Same principle with the nic bitch. You cannot quit fearing her. You can respect the force, but not fear it. Part of quitting is to build that confidence each day. That confidence does not get built from romanticizing the nic bitch and how awesome she is. It’s not sitting around being scared of a crave coming on or caving. No, it’s building a confidence that in fact, you are no longer a slave. You have to get past that slave mindset and get onto living like a freeman. A man that makes his decisions with his mind and heart and not from feelings. You cannot make good decisions coming from feelings – see the great heresy/church split of June. When grown men start to use feelings and emotions as a basis of decision making, nothing good comes out of it.

What are you doing to build that confidence in you today? What are you doing to build it in others? How can you go from fear to fortune? You gotta build that. You wonÂ’t ever win just learning how to escape. You will win by learning to fight and kick ass.
And IÂ’ll end with conjuring up my inner WCWBigNasty and say this. Confidence in a quitter is sexy, and if confidence is sexy, then IÂ’m a bad ass, quit like fuck, every damn day, one day at a time sexy mother fucker. I own that bitch today.

and unlike WCWBigNasty, I'll say, I'm only that way because of alll of you. Thank you for getting me here.

Great post bro. Thanks.

yet another classic! Read it everyone!

ANYBODY WHO DOESNT LIKE THIS POST FROM BRONC LET ME KNOW CAUSE ILL KICK YOUR ASS FROM HERE TO SUNDAY!!!!!

Ok. I think I just got all of the WCW BIG NASTY out of my system.

Bronc - this is a great post. Honored to quit with you today.

I've said it before and I'll say it again......you're the man, Bronc.

I love a man who tries things that everyone else says he can't do. That's my number one motivator. Bronc - keep it up and the life vignettes coming. Good stuff.

Great post Bronc! Proud to quit with you today. As others have said you just flat out get it and that's truly priceless.

Love it brother. Hell of a story from a badass quitter.

Nice, Noel. You are a true bad ass of quit.
QLF by your side EDD!

Agreed ... Bronc, thanks for this gem, as well as a boost of confidence. Appreciate it, and you brother!

Agreed! Bad Ass!!!!!!!!!

I've always like your style Bronc. Great quit wood right here

... "and if you look in their eyes, youÂ’ll see pure determination, confidence and excitement." Super post Bronc - I've looked into the eye of many contestants and you can see it - - - fear vs confidence. Great message bro - QLF
Old ES

[duathman]

Well, itÂ’s been awhile since I posted a sermon and I'm way past the time I can post a HOF speech. This week, I guess I have a topic on my mind. It has to do with fear and our approach and mindset when it comes to quitting and more specifically, our view of the nic bitch. As usual, rodeo will be involved in this object lesson.

I’m dying to do rodeo, but grew up in the city. I had been to a few rodeos, but didn’t know much about it at all other than some dude hops on the back of a mean bronc or bull and tries to hang on for 8 seconds. Now that right there should have kept me from ever trying it, because I didn’t know shit about it. So, I started scouring the internet and I happen to find exactly what I was looking for, a 3 day intense rodeo school. Yep, there is rodeo school where for the small price of $350 you too can learn how to get yourself in the hospital in just about the coolest way possible. This school was in New Caney, TX and was run by a 3 time all-around champ – Lyle Sankey. Lyle’s about as bad ass as they come. He brings it to you direct and straight and doesn’t mess around. He has what he calls a “fantasy” camp for guys like me who just wanted to say we rode a bronc or bull.

When I got there and I told him I didnÂ’t want the fantasy camp but wanted to be a real rodeo guy, he just kind of looked at me pretty puzzled because I was 1. Way too old, 2.) didnÂ’t know a latigo from a lasso, 3.) I donÂ’t think heÂ’d ever seen a sri Lankan before and it confused him.
But, Lyle did his best to make a bronc rider out of me in those days. On the last day, we’re about to have our last go ‘round, and he comes up to me and pulls me aside and says, “look, you don’t have to do this.” I think he was pretty worried that after 2 and a half days of watching me get my ass kicked, he was sure that my luck wasn’t going to last long and that he’d be calling an ambulance that afternoon. I said, man Lyle, why would you say something like that to me. I’m trying as hard as anyone out here. And he looked at me with compassion but in a very stern voice says, because “you are still way too full of fear. You have no confidence in yourself, what we’ve taught you, who you are, and what this sport is all about. All you are doing is going out there and trying to hang on and you can never win just trying to hang on. You have to battle and you have to fight and you have to have the mindset that when you see that rank bronc bucking away in the chute and you have to get on him that you are thinking “ya, this is going to be awesome.” You need to have that look of excitement in your eye and all I see is total fear and that is dangerous. If you look at the champions, you’ll see them – they are calm, cool and collected and if you look in their eyes, you’ll see pure determination, confidence and excitement that they are going to conquer this beast today. Until you can do that, you have no business riding.”

I rode anyway, trying to muster up some ‘semblence of courage and got my ass kicked something awful. A week later, I was at the St Paul Rodeo and getting ready with a whole bunch of world champions. The only reason I was going to get to ride there is because I live in the town and I’m on the committee and the chute boss is a personal friend of mine. The rest of the guys riding are all bad ass riders. To go with the badass riders are the who’s who of bad ass broncs. These things were huge, mean and athletic. As I watched the cowboys get ready, I saw what Lyle was talking about. These dudes were as cool as the other side of the pillow and I’m sitting there shaking like a dog shitting peach seeds. I had absolutely no business being there or on one of those broncs.

A few months later I had gone to some local rodeos and gained some confidence. I got the gleam in my eye and won. It was amazing. It was an amazing ride and I knew it from the minute I arrived at the rodeo grounds. I was just that confident. I wasnÂ’t scared, I was excited.
That’s along damn way to talk about the approach to quitting. I’m seeing way too much of the “dog shitting peach seeds” approach and not enough confidence and determination. This method is true in just about any kind of athletic event. If you are playing football, you gotta hit the other guy harder than he hits you. Same principle with the nic bitch. You cannot quit fearing her. You can respect the force, but not fear it. Part of quitting is to build that confidence each day. That confidence does not get built from romanticizing the nic bitch and how awesome she is. It’s not sitting around being scared of a crave coming on or caving. No, it’s building a confidence that in fact, you are no longer a slave. You have to get past that slave mindset and get onto living like a freeman. A man that makes his decisions with his mind and heart and not from feelings. You cannot make good decisions coming from feelings – see the great heresy/church split of June. When grown men start to use feelings and emotions as a basis of decision making, nothing good comes out of it.

What are you doing to build that confidence in you today? What are you doing to build it in others? How can you go from fear to fortune? You gotta build that. You wonÂ’t ever win just learning how to escape. You will win by learning to fight and kick ass.
And IÂ’ll end with conjuring up my inner WCWBigNasty and say this. Confidence in a quitter is sexy, and if confidence is sexy, then IÂ’m a bad ass, quit like fuck, every damn day, one day at a time sexy mother fucker. I own that bitch today.

and unlike WCWBigNasty, I'll say, I'm only that way because of alll of you. Thank you for getting me here.

Great post bro. Thanks.

yet another classic! Read it everyone!

ANYBODY WHO DOESNT LIKE THIS POST FROM BRONC LET ME KNOW CAUSE ILL KICK YOUR ASS FROM HERE TO SUNDAY!!!!!

Ok. I think I just got all of the WCW BIG NASTY out of my system.

Bronc - this is a great post. Honored to quit with you today.

I've said it before and I'll say it again......you're the man, Bronc.

I love a man who tries things that everyone else says he can't do. That's my number one motivator. Bronc - keep it up and the life vignettes coming. Good stuff.

Great post Bronc! Proud to quit with you today. As others have said you just flat out get it and that's truly priceless.

Love it brother. Hell of a story from a badass quitter.

Nice, Noel. You are a true bad ass of quit.
QLF by your side EDD!

Agreed ... Bronc, thanks for this gem, as well as a boost of confidence. Appreciate it, and you brother!

Agreed! Bad Ass!!!!!!!!!

I've always like your style Bronc. Great quit wood right here

[Kdip]

Well, itÂ’s been awhile since I posted a sermon and I'm way past the time I can post a HOF speech. This week, I guess I have a topic on my mind. It has to do with fear and our approach and mindset when it comes to quitting and more specifically, our view of the nic bitch. As usual, rodeo will be involved in this object lesson.

I’m dying to do rodeo, but grew up in the city. I had been to a few rodeos, but didn’t know much about it at all other than some dude hops on the back of a mean bronc or bull and tries to hang on for 8 seconds. Now that right there should have kept me from ever trying it, because I didn’t know shit about it. So, I started scouring the internet and I happen to find exactly what I was looking for, a 3 day intense rodeo school. Yep, there is rodeo school where for the small price of $350 you too can learn how to get yourself in the hospital in just about the coolest way possible. This school was in New Caney, TX and was run by a 3 time all-around champ – Lyle Sankey. Lyle’s about as bad ass as they come. He brings it to you direct and straight and doesn’t mess around. He has what he calls a “fantasy” camp for guys like me who just wanted to say we rode a bronc or bull.

When I got there and I told him I didnÂ’t want the fantasy camp but wanted to be a real rodeo guy, he just kind of looked at me pretty puzzled because I was 1. Way too old, 2.) didnÂ’t know a latigo from a lasso, 3.) I donÂ’t think heÂ’d ever seen a sri Lankan before and it confused him.
But, Lyle did his best to make a bronc rider out of me in those days. On the last day, we’re about to have our last go ‘round, and he comes up to me and pulls me aside and says, “look, you don’t have to do this.” I think he was pretty worried that after 2 and a half days of watching me get my ass kicked, he was sure that my luck wasn’t going to last long and that he’d be calling an ambulance that afternoon. I said, man Lyle, why would you say something like that to me. I’m trying as hard as anyone out here. And he looked at me with compassion but in a very stern voice says, because “you are still way too full of fear. You have no confidence in yourself, what we’ve taught you, who you are, and what this sport is all about. All you are doing is going out there and trying to hang on and you can never win just trying to hang on. You have to battle and you have to fight and you have to have the mindset that when you see that rank bronc bucking away in the chute and you have to get on him that you are thinking “ya, this is going to be awesome.” You need to have that look of excitement in your eye and all I see is total fear and that is dangerous. If you look at the champions, you’ll see them – they are calm, cool and collected and if you look in their eyes, you’ll see pure determination, confidence and excitement that they are going to conquer this beast today. Until you can do that, you have no business riding.”

I rode anyway, trying to muster up some ‘semblence of courage and got my ass kicked something awful. A week later, I was at the St Paul Rodeo and getting ready with a whole bunch of world champions. The only reason I was going to get to ride there is because I live in the town and I’m on the committee and the chute boss is a personal friend of mine. The rest of the guys riding are all bad ass riders. To go with the badass riders are the who’s who of bad ass broncs. These things were huge, mean and athletic. As I watched the cowboys get ready, I saw what Lyle was talking about. These dudes were as cool as the other side of the pillow and I’m sitting there shaking like a dog shitting peach seeds. I had absolutely no business being there or on one of those broncs.

A few months later I had gone to some local rodeos and gained some confidence. I got the gleam in my eye and won. It was amazing. It was an amazing ride and I knew it from the minute I arrived at the rodeo grounds. I was just that confident. I wasnÂ’t scared, I was excited.
That’s along damn way to talk about the approach to quitting. I’m seeing way too much of the “dog shitting peach seeds” approach and not enough confidence and determination. This method is true in just about any kind of athletic event. If you are playing football, you gotta hit the other guy harder than he hits you. Same principle with the nic bitch. You cannot quit fearing her. You can respect the force, but not fear it. Part of quitting is to build that confidence each day. That confidence does not get built from romanticizing the nic bitch and how awesome she is. It’s not sitting around being scared of a crave coming on or caving. No, it’s building a confidence that in fact, you are no longer a slave. You have to get past that slave mindset and get onto living like a freeman. A man that makes his decisions with his mind and heart and not from feelings. You cannot make good decisions coming from feelings – see the great heresy/church split of June. When grown men start to use feelings and emotions as a basis of decision making, nothing good comes out of it.

What are you doing to build that confidence in you today? What are you doing to build it in others? How can you go from fear to fortune? You gotta build that. You wonÂ’t ever win just learning how to escape. You will win by learning to fight and kick ass.
And IÂ’ll end with conjuring up my inner WCWBigNasty and say this. Confidence in a quitter is sexy, and if confidence is sexy, then IÂ’m a bad ass, quit like fuck, every damn day, one day at a time sexy mother fucker. I own that bitch today.

and unlike WCWBigNasty, I'll say, I'm only that way because of alll of you. Thank you for getting me here.

Great post bro. Thanks.

yet another classic! Read it everyone!

ANYBODY WHO DOESNT LIKE THIS POST FROM BRONC LET ME KNOW CAUSE ILL KICK YOUR ASS FROM HERE TO SUNDAY!!!!!

Ok. I think I just got all of the WCW BIG NASTY out of my system.

Bronc - this is a great post. Honored to quit with you today.

I've said it before and I'll say it again......you're the man, Bronc.

I love a man who tries things that everyone else says he can't do. That's my number one motivator. Bronc - keep it up and the life vignettes coming. Good stuff.

Great post Bronc! Proud to quit with you today. As others have said you just flat out get it and that's truly priceless.

Love it brother. Hell of a story from a badass quitter.

Nice, Noel. You are a true bad ass of quit.
QLF by your side EDD!

Agreed ... Bronc, thanks for this gem, as well as a boost of confidence. Appreciate it, and you brother!

Agreed! Bad Ass!!!!!!!!!

[Smeds]

Well, itÂ’s been awhile since I posted a sermon and I'm way past the time I can post a HOF speech. This week, I guess I have a topic on my mind. It has to do with fear and our approach and mindset when it comes to quitting and more specifically, our view of the nic bitch. As usual, rodeo will be involved in this object lesson.

I’m dying to do rodeo, but grew up in the city. I had been to a few rodeos, but didn’t know much about it at all other than some dude hops on the back of a mean bronc or bull and tries to hang on for 8 seconds. Now that right there should have kept me from ever trying it, because I didn’t know shit about it. So, I started scouring the internet and I happen to find exactly what I was looking for, a 3 day intense rodeo school. Yep, there is rodeo school where for the small price of $350 you too can learn how to get yourself in the hospital in just about the coolest way possible. This school was in New Caney, TX and was run by a 3 time all-around champ – Lyle Sankey. Lyle’s about as bad ass as they come. He brings it to you direct and straight and doesn’t mess around. He has what he calls a “fantasy” camp for guys like me who just wanted to say we rode a bronc or bull.

When I got there and I told him I didnÂ’t want the fantasy camp but wanted to be a real rodeo guy, he just kind of looked at me pretty puzzled because I was 1. Way too old, 2.) didnÂ’t know a latigo from a lasso, 3.) I donÂ’t think heÂ’d ever seen a sri Lankan before and it confused him.
But, Lyle did his best to make a bronc rider out of me in those days. On the last day, we’re about to have our last go ‘round, and he comes up to me and pulls me aside and says, “look, you don’t have to do this.” I think he was pretty worried that after 2 and a half days of watching me get my ass kicked, he was sure that my luck wasn’t going to last long and that he’d be calling an ambulance that afternoon. I said, man Lyle, why would you say something like that to me. I’m trying as hard as anyone out here. And he looked at me with compassion but in a very stern voice says, because “you are still way too full of fear. You have no confidence in yourself, what we’ve taught you, who you are, and what this sport is all about. All you are doing is going out there and trying to hang on and you can never win just trying to hang on. You have to battle and you have to fight and you have to have the mindset that when you see that rank bronc bucking away in the chute and you have to get on him that you are thinking “ya, this is going to be awesome.” You need to have that look of excitement in your eye and all I see is total fear and that is dangerous. If you look at the champions, you’ll see them – they are calm, cool and collected and if you look in their eyes, you’ll see pure determination, confidence and excitement that they are going to conquer this beast today. Until you can do that, you have no business riding.”

I rode anyway, trying to muster up some ‘semblence of courage and got my ass kicked something awful. A week later, I was at the St Paul Rodeo and getting ready with a whole bunch of world champions. The only reason I was going to get to ride there is because I live in the town and I’m on the committee and the chute boss is a personal friend of mine. The rest of the guys riding are all bad ass riders. To go with the badass riders are the who’s who of bad ass broncs. These things were huge, mean and athletic. As I watched the cowboys get ready, I saw what Lyle was talking about. These dudes were as cool as the other side of the pillow and I’m sitting there shaking like a dog shitting peach seeds. I had absolutely no business being there or on one of those broncs.

A few months later I had gone to some local rodeos and gained some confidence. I got the gleam in my eye and won. It was amazing. It was an amazing ride and I knew it from the minute I arrived at the rodeo grounds. I was just that confident. I wasnÂ’t scared, I was excited.
That’s along damn way to talk about the approach to quitting. I’m seeing way too much of the “dog shitting peach seeds” approach and not enough confidence and determination. This method is true in just about any kind of athletic event. If you are playing football, you gotta hit the other guy harder than he hits you. Same principle with the nic bitch. You cannot quit fearing her. You can respect the force, but not fear it. Part of quitting is to build that confidence each day. That confidence does not get built from romanticizing the nic bitch and how awesome she is. It’s not sitting around being scared of a crave coming on or caving. No, it’s building a confidence that in fact, you are no longer a slave. You have to get past that slave mindset and get onto living like a freeman. A man that makes his decisions with his mind and heart and not from feelings. You cannot make good decisions coming from feelings – see the great heresy/church split of June. When grown men start to use feelings and emotions as a basis of decision making, nothing good comes out of it.

What are you doing to build that confidence in you today? What are you doing to build it in others? How can you go from fear to fortune? You gotta build that. You wonÂ’t ever win just learning how to escape. You will win by learning to fight and kick ass.
And IÂ’ll end with conjuring up my inner WCWBigNasty and say this. Confidence in a quitter is sexy, and if confidence is sexy, then IÂ’m a bad ass, quit like fuck, every damn day, one day at a time sexy mother fucker. I own that bitch today.

and unlike WCWBigNasty, I'll say, I'm only that way because of alll of you. Thank you for getting me here.

Great post bro. Thanks.

yet another classic! Read it everyone!

ANYBODY WHO DOESNT LIKE THIS POST FROM BRONC LET ME KNOW CAUSE ILL KICK YOUR ASS FROM HERE TO SUNDAY!!!!!

Ok. I think I just got all of the WCW BIG NASTY out of my system.

Bronc - this is a great post. Honored to quit with you today.

I've said it before and I'll say it again......you're the man, Bronc.

I love a man who tries things that everyone else says he can't do. That's my number one motivator. Bronc - keep it up and the life vignettes coming. Good stuff.

Great post Bronc! Proud to quit with you today. As others have said you just flat out get it and that's truly priceless.

Love it brother. Hell of a story from a badass quitter.

Nice, Noel. You are a true bad ass of quit.
QLF by your side EDD!

Agreed ... Bronc, thanks for this gem, as well as a boost of confidence. Appreciate it, and you brother!

[Doc Chewfree]

Well, itÂ’s been awhile since I posted a sermon and I'm way past the time I can post a HOF speech. This week, I guess I have a topic on my mind. It has to do with fear and our approach and mindset when it comes to quitting and more specifically, our view of the nic bitch. As usual, rodeo will be involved in this object lesson.

I’m dying to do rodeo, but grew up in the city. I had been to a few rodeos, but didn’t know much about it at all other than some dude hops on the back of a mean bronc or bull and tries to hang on for 8 seconds. Now that right there should have kept me from ever trying it, because I didn’t know shit about it. So, I started scouring the internet and I happen to find exactly what I was looking for, a 3 day intense rodeo school. Yep, there is rodeo school where for the small price of $350 you too can learn how to get yourself in the hospital in just about the coolest way possible. This school was in New Caney, TX and was run by a 3 time all-around champ – Lyle Sankey. Lyle’s about as bad ass as they come. He brings it to you direct and straight and doesn’t mess around. He has what he calls a “fantasy” camp for guys like me who just wanted to say we rode a bronc or bull.

When I got there and I told him I didnÂ’t want the fantasy camp but wanted to be a real rodeo guy, he just kind of looked at me pretty puzzled because I was 1. Way too old, 2.) didnÂ’t know a latigo from a lasso, 3.) I donÂ’t think heÂ’d ever seen a sri Lankan before and it confused him.
But, Lyle did his best to make a bronc rider out of me in those days. On the last day, we’re about to have our last go ‘round, and he comes up to me and pulls me aside and says, “look, you don’t have to do this.” I think he was pretty worried that after 2 and a half days of watching me get my ass kicked, he was sure that my luck wasn’t going to last long and that he’d be calling an ambulance that afternoon. I said, man Lyle, why would you say something like that to me. I’m trying as hard as anyone out here. And he looked at me with compassion but in a very stern voice says, because “you are still way too full of fear. You have no confidence in yourself, what we’ve taught you, who you are, and what this sport is all about. All you are doing is going out there and trying to hang on and you can never win just trying to hang on. You have to battle and you have to fight and you have to have the mindset that when you see that rank bronc bucking away in the chute and you have to get on him that you are thinking “ya, this is going to be awesome.” You need to have that look of excitement in your eye and all I see is total fear and that is dangerous. If you look at the champions, you’ll see them – they are calm, cool and collected and if you look in their eyes, you’ll see pure determination, confidence and excitement that they are going to conquer this beast today. Until you can do that, you have no business riding.”

I rode anyway, trying to muster up some ‘semblence of courage and got my ass kicked something awful. A week later, I was at the St Paul Rodeo and getting ready with a whole bunch of world champions. The only reason I was going to get to ride there is because I live in the town and I’m on the committee and the chute boss is a personal friend of mine. The rest of the guys riding are all bad ass riders. To go with the badass riders are the who’s who of bad ass broncs. These things were huge, mean and athletic. As I watched the cowboys get ready, I saw what Lyle was talking about. These dudes were as cool as the other side of the pillow and I’m sitting there shaking like a dog shitting peach seeds. I had absolutely no business being there or on one of those broncs.

A few months later I had gone to some local rodeos and gained some confidence. I got the gleam in my eye and won. It was amazing. It was an amazing ride and I knew it from the minute I arrived at the rodeo grounds. I was just that confident. I wasnÂ’t scared, I was excited.
That’s along damn way to talk about the approach to quitting. I’m seeing way too much of the “dog shitting peach seeds” approach and not enough confidence and determination. This method is true in just about any kind of athletic event. If you are playing football, you gotta hit the other guy harder than he hits you. Same principle with the nic bitch. You cannot quit fearing her. You can respect the force, but not fear it. Part of quitting is to build that confidence each day. That confidence does not get built from romanticizing the nic bitch and how awesome she is. It’s not sitting around being scared of a crave coming on or caving. No, it’s building a confidence that in fact, you are no longer a slave. You have to get past that slave mindset and get onto living like a freeman. A man that makes his decisions with his mind and heart and not from feelings. You cannot make good decisions coming from feelings – see the great heresy/church split of June. When grown men start to use feelings and emotions as a basis of decision making, nothing good comes out of it.

What are you doing to build that confidence in you today? What are you doing to build it in others? How can you go from fear to fortune? You gotta build that. You wonÂ’t ever win just learning how to escape. You will win by learning to fight and kick ass.
And IÂ’ll end with conjuring up my inner WCWBigNasty and say this. Confidence in a quitter is sexy, and if confidence is sexy, then IÂ’m a bad ass, quit like fuck, every damn day, one day at a time sexy mother fucker. I own that bitch today.

and unlike WCWBigNasty, I'll say, I'm only that way because of alll of you. Thank you for getting me here.

Great post bro. Thanks.

yet another classic! Read it everyone!

ANYBODY WHO DOESNT LIKE THIS POST FROM BRONC LET ME KNOW CAUSE ILL KICK YOUR ASS FROM HERE TO SUNDAY!!!!!

Ok. I think I just got all of the WCW BIG NASTY out of my system.

Bronc - this is a great post. Honored to quit with you today.

I've said it before and I'll say it again......you're the man, Bronc.

I love a man who tries things that everyone else says he can't do. That's my number one motivator. Bronc - keep it up and the life vignettes coming. Good stuff.

Great post Bronc! Proud to quit with you today. As others have said you just flat out get it and that's truly priceless.

Love it brother. Hell of a story from a badass quitter.

Nice, Noel. You are a true bad ass of quit.
QLF by your side EDD!

[david.m]

Bronc,

If you like reading, you might like Last Go Round by Ken Kesey.

"At the original Pendleton Round Up in 1911, hundreds of riders were competing for the first World Championship Broncbusting title. But it was one special trio of buckeroos that provided the drama: a popular black cowboy, George Fletcher; a Nez Perce Indian cowboy, Jackson Sundown; and a fresh-faced kid from Tennessee name of Johnathan E. Lee Spain."

I read it a few years ago. When I saw you're Sri Lankan bronc rider (not the "norm") - and have a knack for story-telling, it reminded me of the book. In this case, it's fiction based on legend - but very entertaining - as Kesey's books (One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest, Sometimes a Great Notion) tend to be.

http://www.amazon.com/Last-Go-Round-Rea ... esey+babbs

[Mogul]

Well, itÂ’s been awhile since I posted a sermon and I'm way past the time I can post a HOF speech. This week, I guess I have a topic on my mind. It has to do with fear and our approach and mindset when it comes to quitting and more specifically, our view of the nic bitch. As usual, rodeo will be involved in this object lesson.

I’m dying to do rodeo, but grew up in the city. I had been to a few rodeos, but didn’t know much about it at all other than some dude hops on the back of a mean bronc or bull and tries to hang on for 8 seconds. Now that right there should have kept me from ever trying it, because I didn’t know shit about it. So, I started scouring the internet and I happen to find exactly what I was looking for, a 3 day intense rodeo school. Yep, there is rodeo school where for the small price of $350 you too can learn how to get yourself in the hospital in just about the coolest way possible. This school was in New Caney, TX and was run by a 3 time all-around champ – Lyle Sankey. Lyle’s about as bad ass as they come. He brings it to you direct and straight and doesn’t mess around. He has what he calls a “fantasy” camp for guys like me who just wanted to say we rode a bronc or bull.

When I got there and I told him I didnÂ’t want the fantasy camp but wanted to be a real rodeo guy, he just kind of looked at me pretty puzzled because I was 1. Way too old, 2.) didnÂ’t know a latigo from a lasso, 3.) I donÂ’t think heÂ’d ever seen a sri Lankan before and it confused him.
But, Lyle did his best to make a bronc rider out of me in those days. On the last day, we’re about to have our last go ‘round, and he comes up to me and pulls me aside and says, “look, you don’t have to do this.” I think he was pretty worried that after 2 and a half days of watching me get my ass kicked, he was sure that my luck wasn’t going to last long and that he’d be calling an ambulance that afternoon. I said, man Lyle, why would you say something like that to me. I’m trying as hard as anyone out here. And he looked at me with compassion but in a very stern voice says, because “you are still way too full of fear. You have no confidence in yourself, what we’ve taught you, who you are, and what this sport is all about. All you are doing is going out there and trying to hang on and you can never win just trying to hang on. You have to battle and you have to fight and you have to have the mindset that when you see that rank bronc bucking away in the chute and you have to get on him that you are thinking “ya, this is going to be awesome.” You need to have that look of excitement in your eye and all I see is total fear and that is dangerous. If you look at the champions, you’ll see them – they are calm, cool and collected and if you look in their eyes, you’ll see pure determination, confidence and excitement that they are going to conquer this beast today. Until you can do that, you have no business riding.”

I rode anyway, trying to muster up some ‘semblence of courage and got my ass kicked something awful. A week later, I was at the St Paul Rodeo and getting ready with a whole bunch of world champions. The only reason I was going to get to ride there is because I live in the town and I’m on the committee and the chute boss is a personal friend of mine. The rest of the guys riding are all bad ass riders. To go with the badass riders are the who’s who of bad ass broncs. These things were huge, mean and athletic. As I watched the cowboys get ready, I saw what Lyle was talking about. These dudes were as cool as the other side of the pillow and I’m sitting there shaking like a dog shitting peach seeds. I had absolutely no business being there or on one of those broncs.

A few months later I had gone to some local rodeos and gained some confidence. I got the gleam in my eye and won. It was amazing. It was an amazing ride and I knew it from the minute I arrived at the rodeo grounds. I was just that confident. I wasnÂ’t scared, I was excited.
That’s along damn way to talk about the approach to quitting. I’m seeing way too much of the “dog shitting peach seeds” approach and not enough confidence and determination. This method is true in just about any kind of athletic event. If you are playing football, you gotta hit the other guy harder than he hits you. Same principle with the nic bitch. You cannot quit fearing her. You can respect the force, but not fear it. Part of quitting is to build that confidence each day. That confidence does not get built from romanticizing the nic bitch and how awesome she is. It’s not sitting around being scared of a crave coming on or caving. No, it’s building a confidence that in fact, you are no longer a slave. You have to get past that slave mindset and get onto living like a freeman. A man that makes his decisions with his mind and heart and not from feelings. You cannot make good decisions coming from feelings – see the great heresy/church split of June. When grown men start to use feelings and emotions as a basis of decision making, nothing good comes out of it.

What are you doing to build that confidence in you today? What are you doing to build it in others? How can you go from fear to fortune? You gotta build that. You wonÂ’t ever win just learning how to escape. You will win by learning to fight and kick ass.
And IÂ’ll end with conjuring up my inner WCWBigNasty and say this. Confidence in a quitter is sexy, and if confidence is sexy, then IÂ’m a bad ass, quit like fuck, every damn day, one day at a time sexy mother fucker. I own that bitch today.

and unlike WCWBigNasty, I'll say, I'm only that way because of alll of you. Thank you for getting me here.

Great post bro. Thanks.

yet another classic! Read it everyone!

ANYBODY WHO DOESNT LIKE THIS POST FROM BRONC LET ME KNOW CAUSE ILL KICK YOUR ASS FROM HERE TO SUNDAY!!!!!

Ok. I think I just got all of the WCW BIG NASTY out of my system.

Bronc - this is a great post. Honored to quit with you today.

I've said it before and I'll say it again......you're the man, Bronc.

I love a man who tries things that everyone else says he can't do. That's my number one motivator. Bronc - keep it up and the life vignettes coming. Good stuff.

Great post Bronc! Proud to quit with you today. As others have said you just flat out get it and that's truly priceless.

Love it brother. Hell of a story from a badass quitter.

[Spence249]

Well, itÂ’s been awhile since I posted a sermon and I'm way past the time I can post a HOF speech. This week, I guess I have a topic on my mind. It has to do with fear and our approach and mindset when it comes to quitting and more specifically, our view of the nic bitch. As usual, rodeo will be involved in this object lesson.

I’m dying to do rodeo, but grew up in the city. I had been to a few rodeos, but didn’t know much about it at all other than some dude hops on the back of a mean bronc or bull and tries to hang on for 8 seconds. Now that right there should have kept me from ever trying it, because I didn’t know shit about it. So, I started scouring the internet and I happen to find exactly what I was looking for, a 3 day intense rodeo school. Yep, there is rodeo school where for the small price of $350 you too can learn how to get yourself in the hospital in just about the coolest way possible. This school was in New Caney, TX and was run by a 3 time all-around champ – Lyle Sankey. Lyle’s about as bad ass as they come. He brings it to you direct and straight and doesn’t mess around. He has what he calls a “fantasy” camp for guys like me who just wanted to say we rode a bronc or bull.

When I got there and I told him I didnÂ’t want the fantasy camp but wanted to be a real rodeo guy, he just kind of looked at me pretty puzzled because I was 1. Way too old, 2.) didnÂ’t know a latigo from a lasso, 3.) I donÂ’t think heÂ’d ever seen a sri Lankan before and it confused him.
But, Lyle did his best to make a bronc rider out of me in those days. On the last day, we’re about to have our last go ‘round, and he comes up to me and pulls me aside and says, “look, you don’t have to do this.” I think he was pretty worried that after 2 and a half days of watching me get my ass kicked, he was sure that my luck wasn’t going to last long and that he’d be calling an ambulance that afternoon. I said, man Lyle, why would you say something like that to me. I’m trying as hard as anyone out here. And he looked at me with compassion but in a very stern voice says, because “you are still way too full of fear. You have no confidence in yourself, what we’ve taught you, who you are, and what this sport is all about. All you are doing is going out there and trying to hang on and you can never win just trying to hang on. You have to battle and you have to fight and you have to have the mindset that when you see that rank bronc bucking away in the chute and you have to get on him that you are thinking “ya, this is going to be awesome.” You need to have that look of excitement in your eye and all I see is total fear and that is dangerous. If you look at the champions, you’ll see them – they are calm, cool and collected and if you look in their eyes, you’ll see pure determination, confidence and excitement that they are going to conquer this beast today. Until you can do that, you have no business riding.”

I rode anyway, trying to muster up some ‘semblence of courage and got my ass kicked something awful. A week later, I was at the St Paul Rodeo and getting ready with a whole bunch of world champions. The only reason I was going to get to ride there is because I live in the town and I’m on the committee and the chute boss is a personal friend of mine. The rest of the guys riding are all bad ass riders. To go with the badass riders are the who’s who of bad ass broncs. These things were huge, mean and athletic. As I watched the cowboys get ready, I saw what Lyle was talking about. These dudes were as cool as the other side of the pillow and I’m sitting there shaking like a dog shitting peach seeds. I had absolutely no business being there or on one of those broncs.

A few months later I had gone to some local rodeos and gained some confidence. I got the gleam in my eye and won. It was amazing. It was an amazing ride and I knew it from the minute I arrived at the rodeo grounds. I was just that confident. I wasnÂ’t scared, I was excited.
That’s along damn way to talk about the approach to quitting. I’m seeing way too much of the “dog shitting peach seeds” approach and not enough confidence and determination. This method is true in just about any kind of athletic event. If you are playing football, you gotta hit the other guy harder than he hits you. Same principle with the nic bitch. You cannot quit fearing her. You can respect the force, but not fear it. Part of quitting is to build that confidence each day. That confidence does not get built from romanticizing the nic bitch and how awesome she is. It’s not sitting around being scared of a crave coming on or caving. No, it’s building a confidence that in fact, you are no longer a slave. You have to get past that slave mindset and get onto living like a freeman. A man that makes his decisions with his mind and heart and not from feelings. You cannot make good decisions coming from feelings – see the great heresy/church split of June. When grown men start to use feelings and emotions as a basis of decision making, nothing good comes out of it.

What are you doing to build that confidence in you today? What are you doing to build it in others? How can you go from fear to fortune? You gotta build that. You wonÂ’t ever win just learning how to escape. You will win by learning to fight and kick ass.
And IÂ’ll end with conjuring up my inner WCWBigNasty and say this. Confidence in a quitter is sexy, and if confidence is sexy, then IÂ’m a bad ass, quit like fuck, every damn day, one day at a time sexy mother fucker. I own that bitch today.

and unlike WCWBigNasty, I'll say, I'm only that way because of alll of you. Thank you for getting me here.

Great post bro. Thanks.

yet another classic! Read it everyone!

ANYBODY WHO DOESNT LIKE THIS POST FROM BRONC LET ME KNOW CAUSE ILL KICK YOUR ASS FROM HERE TO SUNDAY!!!!!

Ok. I think I just got all of the WCW BIG NASTY out of my system.

Bronc - this is a great post. Honored to quit with you today.

I've said it before and I'll say it again......you're the man, Bronc.

I love a man who tries things that everyone else says he can't do. That's my number one motivator. Bronc - keep it up and the life vignettes coming. Good stuff.

Great post Bronc! Proud to quit with you today. As others have said you just flat out get it and that's truly priceless.

[Tuco]

Well, itÂ’s been awhile since I posted a sermon and I'm way past the time I can post a HOF speech. This week, I guess I have a topic on my mind. It has to do with fear and our approach and mindset when it comes to quitting and more specifically, our view of the nic bitch. As usual, rodeo will be involved in this object lesson.

I’m dying to do rodeo, but grew up in the city. I had been to a few rodeos, but didn’t know much about it at all other than some dude hops on the back of a mean bronc or bull and tries to hang on for 8 seconds. Now that right there should have kept me from ever trying it, because I didn’t know shit about it. So, I started scouring the internet and I happen to find exactly what I was looking for, a 3 day intense rodeo school. Yep, there is rodeo school where for the small price of $350 you too can learn how to get yourself in the hospital in just about the coolest way possible. This school was in New Caney, TX and was run by a 3 time all-around champ – Lyle Sankey. Lyle’s about as bad ass as they come. He brings it to you direct and straight and doesn’t mess around. He has what he calls a “fantasy” camp for guys like me who just wanted to say we rode a bronc or bull.

When I got there and I told him I didnÂ’t want the fantasy camp but wanted to be a real rodeo guy, he just kind of looked at me pretty puzzled because I was 1. Way too old, 2.) didnÂ’t know a latigo from a lasso, 3.) I donÂ’t think heÂ’d ever seen a sri Lankan before and it confused him.
But, Lyle did his best to make a bronc rider out of me in those days. On the last day, we’re about to have our last go ‘round, and he comes up to me and pulls me aside and says, “look, you don’t have to do this.” I think he was pretty worried that after 2 and a half days of watching me get my ass kicked, he was sure that my luck wasn’t going to last long and that he’d be calling an ambulance that afternoon. I said, man Lyle, why would you say something like that to me. I’m trying as hard as anyone out here. And he looked at me with compassion but in a very stern voice says, because “you are still way too full of fear. You have no confidence in yourself, what we’ve taught you, who you are, and what this sport is all about. All you are doing is going out there and trying to hang on and you can never win just trying to hang on. You have to battle and you have to fight and you have to have the mindset that when you see that rank bronc bucking away in the chute and you have to get on him that you are thinking “ya, this is going to be awesome.” You need to have that look of excitement in your eye and all I see is total fear and that is dangerous. If you look at the champions, you’ll see them – they are calm, cool and collected and if you look in their eyes, you’ll see pure determination, confidence and excitement that they are going to conquer this beast today. Until you can do that, you have no business riding.”

I rode anyway, trying to muster up some ‘semblence of courage and got my ass kicked something awful. A week later, I was at the St Paul Rodeo and getting ready with a whole bunch of world champions. The only reason I was going to get to ride there is because I live in the town and I’m on the committee and the chute boss is a personal friend of mine. The rest of the guys riding are all bad ass riders. To go with the badass riders are the who’s who of bad ass broncs. These things were huge, mean and athletic. As I watched the cowboys get ready, I saw what Lyle was talking about. These dudes were as cool as the other side of the pillow and I’m sitting there shaking like a dog shitting peach seeds. I had absolutely no business being there or on one of those broncs.

A few months later I had gone to some local rodeos and gained some confidence. I got the gleam in my eye and won. It was amazing. It was an amazing ride and I knew it from the minute I arrived at the rodeo grounds. I was just that confident. I wasnÂ’t scared, I was excited.
That’s along damn way to talk about the approach to quitting. I’m seeing way too much of the “dog shitting peach seeds” approach and not enough confidence and determination. This method is true in just about any kind of athletic event. If you are playing football, you gotta hit the other guy harder than he hits you. Same principle with the nic bitch. You cannot quit fearing her. You can respect the force, but not fear it. Part of quitting is to build that confidence each day. That confidence does not get built from romanticizing the nic bitch and how awesome she is. It’s not sitting around being scared of a crave coming on or caving. No, it’s building a confidence that in fact, you are no longer a slave. You have to get past that slave mindset and get onto living like a freeman. A man that makes his decisions with his mind and heart and not from feelings. You cannot make good decisions coming from feelings – see the great heresy/church split of June. When grown men start to use feelings and emotions as a basis of decision making, nothing good comes out of it.

What are you doing to build that confidence in you today? What are you doing to build it in others? How can you go from fear to fortune? You gotta build that. You wonÂ’t ever win just learning how to escape. You will win by learning to fight and kick ass.
And IÂ’ll end with conjuring up my inner WCWBigNasty and say this. Confidence in a quitter is sexy, and if confidence is sexy, then IÂ’m a bad ass, quit like fuck, every damn day, one day at a time sexy mother fucker. I own that bitch today.

and unlike WCWBigNasty, I'll say, I'm only that way because of alll of you. Thank you for getting me here.

Great post bro. Thanks.

yet another classic! Read it everyone!

ANYBODY WHO DOESNT LIKE THIS POST FROM BRONC LET ME KNOW CAUSE ILL KICK YOUR ASS FROM HERE TO SUNDAY!!!!!

Ok. I think I just got all of the WCW BIG NASTY out of my system.

Bronc - this is a great post. Honored to quit with you today.

I've said it before and I'll say it again......you're the man, Bronc.

I love a man who tries things that everyone else says he can't do. That's my number one motivator. Bronc - keep it up and the life vignettes coming. Good stuff.

I live it Bronc, but WTW's response makes me wanna say otherwise. Just kidding I love his badass too.

I have images of Rocky III going thru my mind Bronc. "Eye of the Tiger!" Heck yeah!!

Got to have a little fire in yer belly to stay quit today. No question about that. Proud to be quit with you today!

Love it Bronc.. Nicely done.. Inspirational as always, and i will sleep easier knowing how sexy you find me

Great insights, and all so true. There's so much fear of the unknown for the new or contemplative quitter, but you've got to attack the quit. Really take ownership of it. Be the boss.

[MN_Ben]

Well, itÂ’s been awhile since I posted a sermon and I'm way past the time I can post a HOF speech. This week, I guess I have a topic on my mind. It has to do with fear and our approach and mindset when it comes to quitting and more specifically, our view of the nic bitch. As usual, rodeo will be involved in this object lesson.

I’m dying to do rodeo, but grew up in the city. I had been to a few rodeos, but didn’t know much about it at all other than some dude hops on the back of a mean bronc or bull and tries to hang on for 8 seconds. Now that right there should have kept me from ever trying it, because I didn’t know shit about it. So, I started scouring the internet and I happen to find exactly what I was looking for, a 3 day intense rodeo school. Yep, there is rodeo school where for the small price of $350 you too can learn how to get yourself in the hospital in just about the coolest way possible. This school was in New Caney, TX and was run by a 3 time all-around champ – Lyle Sankey. Lyle’s about as bad ass as they come. He brings it to you direct and straight and doesn’t mess around. He has what he calls a “fantasy” camp for guys like me who just wanted to say we rode a bronc or bull.

When I got there and I told him I didnÂ’t want the fantasy camp but wanted to be a real rodeo guy, he just kind of looked at me pretty puzzled because I was 1. Way too old, 2.) didnÂ’t know a latigo from a lasso, 3.) I donÂ’t think heÂ’d ever seen a sri Lankan before and it confused him.
But, Lyle did his best to make a bronc rider out of me in those days. On the last day, we’re about to have our last go ‘round, and he comes up to me and pulls me aside and says, “look, you don’t have to do this.” I think he was pretty worried that after 2 and a half days of watching me get my ass kicked, he was sure that my luck wasn’t going to last long and that he’d be calling an ambulance that afternoon. I said, man Lyle, why would you say something like that to me. I’m trying as hard as anyone out here. And he looked at me with compassion but in a very stern voice says, because “you are still way too full of fear. You have no confidence in yourself, what we’ve taught you, who you are, and what this sport is all about. All you are doing is going out there and trying to hang on and you can never win just trying to hang on. You have to battle and you have to fight and you have to have the mindset that when you see that rank bronc bucking away in the chute and you have to get on him that you are thinking “ya, this is going to be awesome.” You need to have that look of excitement in your eye and all I see is total fear and that is dangerous. If you look at the champions, you’ll see them – they are calm, cool and collected and if you look in their eyes, you’ll see pure determination, confidence and excitement that they are going to conquer this beast today. Until you can do that, you have no business riding.”

I rode anyway, trying to muster up some ‘semblence of courage and got my ass kicked something awful. A week later, I was at the St Paul Rodeo and getting ready with a whole bunch of world champions. The only reason I was going to get to ride there is because I live in the town and I’m on the committee and the chute boss is a personal friend of mine. The rest of the guys riding are all bad ass riders. To go with the badass riders are the who’s who of bad ass broncs. These things were huge, mean and athletic. As I watched the cowboys get ready, I saw what Lyle was talking about. These dudes were as cool as the other side of the pillow and I’m sitting there shaking like a dog shitting peach seeds. I had absolutely no business being there or on one of those broncs.

A few months later I had gone to some local rodeos and gained some confidence. I got the gleam in my eye and won. It was amazing. It was an amazing ride and I knew it from the minute I arrived at the rodeo grounds. I was just that confident. I wasnÂ’t scared, I was excited.
That’s along damn way to talk about the approach to quitting. I’m seeing way too much of the “dog shitting peach seeds” approach and not enough confidence and determination. This method is true in just about any kind of athletic event. If you are playing football, you gotta hit the other guy harder than he hits you. Same principle with the nic bitch. You cannot quit fearing her. You can respect the force, but not fear it. Part of quitting is to build that confidence each day. That confidence does not get built from romanticizing the nic bitch and how awesome she is. It’s not sitting around being scared of a crave coming on or caving. No, it’s building a confidence that in fact, you are no longer a slave. You have to get past that slave mindset and get onto living like a freeman. A man that makes his decisions with his mind and heart and not from feelings. You cannot make good decisions coming from feelings – see the great heresy/church split of June. When grown men start to use feelings and emotions as a basis of decision making, nothing good comes out of it.

What are you doing to build that confidence in you today? What are you doing to build it in others? How can you go from fear to fortune? You gotta build that. You wonÂ’t ever win just learning how to escape. You will win by learning to fight and kick ass.
And IÂ’ll end with conjuring up my inner WCWBigNasty and say this. Confidence in a quitter is sexy, and if confidence is sexy, then IÂ’m a bad ass, quit like fuck, every damn day, one day at a time sexy mother fucker. I own that bitch today.

and unlike WCWBigNasty, I'll say, I'm only that way because of alll of you. Thank you for getting me here.

Great post bro. Thanks.

yet another classic! Read it everyone!

ANYBODY WHO DOESNT LIKE THIS POST FROM BRONC LET ME KNOW CAUSE ILL KICK YOUR ASS FROM HERE TO SUNDAY!!!!!

Ok. I think I just got all of the WCW BIG NASTY out of my system.

Bronc - this is a great post. Honored to quit with you today.

I've said it before and I'll say it again......you're the man, Bronc.

I love a man who tries things that everyone else says he can't do. That's my number one motivator. Bronc - keep it up and the life vignettes coming. Good stuff.

I live it Bronc, but WTW's response makes me wanna say otherwise. Just kidding I love his badass too.

I have images of Rocky III going thru my mind Bronc. "Eye of the Tiger!" Heck yeah!!

Got to have a little fire in yer belly to stay quit today. No question about that. Proud to be quit with you today!

Love it Bronc.. Nicely done.. Inspirational as always, and i will sleep easier knowing how sexy you find me

[Derk40]

Well, itÂ’s been awhile since I posted a sermon and I'm way past the time I can post a HOF speech. This week, I guess I have a topic on my mind. It has to do with fear and our approach and mindset when it comes to quitting and more specifically, our view of the nic bitch. As usual, rodeo will be involved in this object lesson.

I’m dying to do rodeo, but grew up in the city. I had been to a few rodeos, but didn’t know much about it at all other than some dude hops on the back of a mean bronc or bull and tries to hang on for 8 seconds. Now that right there should have kept me from ever trying it, because I didn’t know shit about it. So, I started scouring the internet and I happen to find exactly what I was looking for, a 3 day intense rodeo school. Yep, there is rodeo school where for the small price of $350 you too can learn how to get yourself in the hospital in just about the coolest way possible. This school was in New Caney, TX and was run by a 3 time all-around champ – Lyle Sankey. Lyle’s about as bad ass as they come. He brings it to you direct and straight and doesn’t mess around. He has what he calls a “fantasy” camp for guys like me who just wanted to say we rode a bronc or bull.

When I got there and I told him I didnÂ’t want the fantasy camp but wanted to be a real rodeo guy, he just kind of looked at me pretty puzzled because I was 1. Way too old, 2.) didnÂ’t know a latigo from a lasso, 3.) I donÂ’t think heÂ’d ever seen a sri Lankan before and it confused him.
But, Lyle did his best to make a bronc rider out of me in those days. On the last day, we’re about to have our last go ‘round, and he comes up to me and pulls me aside and says, “look, you don’t have to do this.” I think he was pretty worried that after 2 and a half days of watching me get my ass kicked, he was sure that my luck wasn’t going to last long and that he’d be calling an ambulance that afternoon. I said, man Lyle, why would you say something like that to me. I’m trying as hard as anyone out here. And he looked at me with compassion but in a very stern voice says, because “you are still way too full of fear. You have no confidence in yourself, what we’ve taught you, who you are, and what this sport is all about. All you are doing is going out there and trying to hang on and you can never win just trying to hang on. You have to battle and you have to fight and you have to have the mindset that when you see that rank bronc bucking away in the chute and you have to get on him that you are thinking “ya, this is going to be awesome.” You need to have that look of excitement in your eye and all I see is total fear and that is dangerous. If you look at the champions, you’ll see them – they are calm, cool and collected and if you look in their eyes, you’ll see pure determination, confidence and excitement that they are going to conquer this beast today. Until you can do that, you have no business riding.”

I rode anyway, trying to muster up some ‘semblence of courage and got my ass kicked something awful. A week later, I was at the St Paul Rodeo and getting ready with a whole bunch of world champions. The only reason I was going to get to ride there is because I live in the town and I’m on the committee and the chute boss is a personal friend of mine. The rest of the guys riding are all bad ass riders. To go with the badass riders are the who’s who of bad ass broncs. These things were huge, mean and athletic. As I watched the cowboys get ready, I saw what Lyle was talking about. These dudes were as cool as the other side of the pillow and I’m sitting there shaking like a dog shitting peach seeds. I had absolutely no business being there or on one of those broncs.

A few months later I had gone to some local rodeos and gained some confidence. I got the gleam in my eye and won. It was amazing. It was an amazing ride and I knew it from the minute I arrived at the rodeo grounds. I was just that confident. I wasnÂ’t scared, I was excited.
That’s along damn way to talk about the approach to quitting. I’m seeing way too much of the “dog shitting peach seeds” approach and not enough confidence and determination. This method is true in just about any kind of athletic event. If you are playing football, you gotta hit the other guy harder than he hits you. Same principle with the nic bitch. You cannot quit fearing her. You can respect the force, but not fear it. Part of quitting is to build that confidence each day. That confidence does not get built from romanticizing the nic bitch and how awesome she is. It’s not sitting around being scared of a crave coming on or caving. No, it’s building a confidence that in fact, you are no longer a slave. You have to get past that slave mindset and get onto living like a freeman. A man that makes his decisions with his mind and heart and not from feelings. You cannot make good decisions coming from feelings – see the great heresy/church split of June. When grown men start to use feelings and emotions as a basis of decision making, nothing good comes out of it.

What are you doing to build that confidence in you today? What are you doing to build it in others? How can you go from fear to fortune? You gotta build that. You wonÂ’t ever win just learning how to escape. You will win by learning to fight and kick ass.
And IÂ’ll end with conjuring up my inner WCWBigNasty and say this. Confidence in a quitter is sexy, and if confidence is sexy, then IÂ’m a bad ass, quit like fuck, every damn day, one day at a time sexy mother fucker. I own that bitch today.

and unlike WCWBigNasty, I'll say, I'm only that way because of alll of you. Thank you for getting me here.

Great post bro. Thanks.

yet another classic! Read it everyone!

ANYBODY WHO DOESNT LIKE THIS POST FROM BRONC LET ME KNOW CAUSE ILL KICK YOUR ASS FROM HERE TO SUNDAY!!!!!

Ok. I think I just got all of the WCW BIG NASTY out of my system.

Bronc - this is a great post. Honored to quit with you today.

I've said it before and I'll say it again......you're the man, Bronc.

I love a man who tries things that everyone else says he can't do. That's my number one motivator. Bronc - keep it up and the life vignettes coming. Good stuff.

I live it Bronc, but WTW's response makes me wanna say otherwise. Just kidding I love his badass too.

I have images of Rocky III going thru my mind Bronc. "Eye of the Tiger!" Heck yeah!!

Got to have a little fire in yer belly to stay quit today. No question about that. Proud to be quit with you today!

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Well, itÂ’s been awhile since I posted a sermon and I'm way past the time I can post a HOF speech. This week, I guess I have a topic on my mind. It has to do with fear and our approach and mindset when it comes to quitting and more specifically, our view of the nic bitch. As usual, rodeo will be involved in this object lesson.

I’m dying to do rodeo, but grew up in the city. I had been to a few rodeos, but didn’t know much about it at all other than some dude hops on the back of a mean bronc or bull and tries to hang on for 8 seconds. Now that right there should have kept me from ever trying it, because I didn’t know shit about it. So, I started scouring the internet and I happen to find exactly what I was looking for, a 3 day intense rodeo school. Yep, there is rodeo school where for the small price of $350 you too can learn how to get yourself in the hospital in just about the coolest way possible. This school was in New Caney, TX and was run by a 3 time all-around champ – Lyle Sankey. Lyle’s about as bad ass as they come. He brings it to you direct and straight and doesn’t mess around. He has what he calls a “fantasy” camp for guys like me who just wanted to say we rode a bronc or bull.

When I got there and I told him I didnÂ’t want the fantasy camp but wanted to be a real rodeo guy, he just kind of looked at me pretty puzzled because I was 1. Way too old, 2.) didnÂ’t know a latigo from a lasso, 3.) I donÂ’t think heÂ’d ever seen a sri Lankan before and it confused him.
But, Lyle did his best to make a bronc rider out of me in those days. On the last day, we’re about to have our last go ‘round, and he comes up to me and pulls me aside and says, “look, you don’t have to do this.” I think he was pretty worried that after 2 and a half days of watching me get my ass kicked, he was sure that my luck wasn’t going to last long and that he’d be calling an ambulance that afternoon. I said, man Lyle, why would you say something like that to me. I’m trying as hard as anyone out here. And he looked at me with compassion but in a very stern voice says, because “you are still way too full of fear. You have no confidence in yourself, what we’ve taught you, who you are, and what this sport is all about. All you are doing is going out there and trying to hang on and you can never win just trying to hang on. You have to battle and you have to fight and you have to have the mindset that when you see that rank bronc bucking away in the chute and you have to get on him that you are thinking “ya, this is going to be awesome.” You need to have that look of excitement in your eye and all I see is total fear and that is dangerous. If you look at the champions, you’ll see them – they are calm, cool and collected and if you look in their eyes, you’ll see pure determination, confidence and excitement that they are going to conquer this beast today. Until you can do that, you have no business riding.”

I rode anyway, trying to muster up some ‘semblence of courage and got my ass kicked something awful. A week later, I was at the St Paul Rodeo and getting ready with a whole bunch of world champions. The only reason I was going to get to ride there is because I live in the town and I’m on the committee and the chute boss is a personal friend of mine. The rest of the guys riding are all bad ass riders. To go with the badass riders are the who’s who of bad ass broncs. These things were huge, mean and athletic. As I watched the cowboys get ready, I saw what Lyle was talking about. These dudes were as cool as the other side of the pillow and I’m sitting there shaking like a dog shitting peach seeds. I had absolutely no business being there or on one of those broncs.

A few months later I had gone to some local rodeos and gained some confidence. I got the gleam in my eye and won. It was amazing. It was an amazing ride and I knew it from the minute I arrived at the rodeo grounds. I was just that confident. I wasnÂ’t scared, I was excited.
That’s along damn way to talk about the approach to quitting. I’m seeing way too much of the “dog shitting peach seeds” approach and not enough confidence and determination. This method is true in just about any kind of athletic event. If you are playing football, you gotta hit the other guy harder than he hits you. Same principle with the nic bitch. You cannot quit fearing her. You can respect the force, but not fear it. Part of quitting is to build that confidence each day. That confidence does not get built from romanticizing the nic bitch and how awesome she is. It’s not sitting around being scared of a crave coming on or caving. No, it’s building a confidence that in fact, you are no longer a slave. You have to get past that slave mindset and get onto living like a freeman. A man that makes his decisions with his mind and heart and not from feelings. You cannot make good decisions coming from feelings – see the great heresy/church split of June. When grown men start to use feelings and emotions as a basis of decision making, nothing good comes out of it.

What are you doing to build that confidence in you today? What are you doing to build it in others? How can you go from fear to fortune? You gotta build that. You wonÂ’t ever win just learning how to escape. You will win by learning to fight and kick ass.
And IÂ’ll end with conjuring up my inner WCWBigNasty and say this. Confidence in a quitter is sexy, and if confidence is sexy, then IÂ’m a bad ass, quit like fuck, every damn day, one day at a time sexy mother fucker. I own that bitch today.

and unlike WCWBigNasty, I'll say, I'm only that way because of alll of you. Thank you for getting me here.

Great post bro. Thanks.

yet another classic! Read it everyone!

ANYBODY WHO DOESNT LIKE THIS POST FROM BRONC LET ME KNOW CAUSE ILL KICK YOUR ASS FROM HERE TO SUNDAY!!!!!

Ok. I think I just got all of the WCW BIG NASTY out of my system.

Bronc - this is a great post. Honored to quit with you today.

I've said it before and I'll say it again......you're the man, Bronc.

I love a man who tries things that everyone else says he can't do. That's my number one motivator. Bronc - keep it up and the life vignettes coming. Good stuff.

I live it Bronc, but WTW's response makes me wanna say otherwise. Just kidding I love his badass too.

[Done4Me]

Well, itÂ’s been awhile since I posted a sermon and I'm way past the time I can post a HOF speech. This week, I guess I have a topic on my mind. It has to do with fear and our approach and mindset when it comes to quitting and more specifically, our view of the nic bitch. As usual, rodeo will be involved in this object lesson.

I’m dying to do rodeo, but grew up in the city. I had been to a few rodeos, but didn’t know much about it at all other than some dude hops on the back of a mean bronc or bull and tries to hang on for 8 seconds. Now that right there should have kept me from ever trying it, because I didn’t know shit about it. So, I started scouring the internet and I happen to find exactly what I was looking for, a 3 day intense rodeo school. Yep, there is rodeo school where for the small price of $350 you too can learn how to get yourself in the hospital in just about the coolest way possible. This school was in New Caney, TX and was run by a 3 time all-around champ – Lyle Sankey. Lyle’s about as bad ass as they come. He brings it to you direct and straight and doesn’t mess around. He has what he calls a “fantasy” camp for guys like me who just wanted to say we rode a bronc or bull.

When I got there and I told him I didnÂ’t want the fantasy camp but wanted to be a real rodeo guy, he just kind of looked at me pretty puzzled because I was 1. Way too old, 2.) didnÂ’t know a latigo from a lasso, 3.) I donÂ’t think heÂ’d ever seen a sri Lankan before and it confused him.
But, Lyle did his best to make a bronc rider out of me in those days. On the last day, we’re about to have our last go ‘round, and he comes up to me and pulls me aside and says, “look, you don’t have to do this.” I think he was pretty worried that after 2 and a half days of watching me get my ass kicked, he was sure that my luck wasn’t going to last long and that he’d be calling an ambulance that afternoon. I said, man Lyle, why would you say something like that to me. I’m trying as hard as anyone out here. And he looked at me with compassion but in a very stern voice says, because “you are still way too full of fear. You have no confidence in yourself, what we’ve taught you, who you are, and what this sport is all about. All you are doing is going out there and trying to hang on and you can never win just trying to hang on. You have to battle and you have to fight and you have to have the mindset that when you see that rank bronc bucking away in the chute and you have to get on him that you are thinking “ya, this is going to be awesome.” You need to have that look of excitement in your eye and all I see is total fear and that is dangerous. If you look at the champions, you’ll see them – they are calm, cool and collected and if you look in their eyes, you’ll see pure determination, confidence and excitement that they are going to conquer this beast today. Until you can do that, you have no business riding.”

I rode anyway, trying to muster up some ‘semblence of courage and got my ass kicked something awful. A week later, I was at the St Paul Rodeo and getting ready with a whole bunch of world champions. The only reason I was going to get to ride there is because I live in the town and I’m on the committee and the chute boss is a personal friend of mine. The rest of the guys riding are all bad ass riders. To go with the badass riders are the who’s who of bad ass broncs. These things were huge, mean and athletic. As I watched the cowboys get ready, I saw what Lyle was talking about. These dudes were as cool as the other side of the pillow and I’m sitting there shaking like a dog shitting peach seeds. I had absolutely no business being there or on one of those broncs.

A few months later I had gone to some local rodeos and gained some confidence. I got the gleam in my eye and won. It was amazing. It was an amazing ride and I knew it from the minute I arrived at the rodeo grounds. I was just that confident. I wasnÂ’t scared, I was excited.
That’s along damn way to talk about the approach to quitting. I’m seeing way too much of the “dog shitting peach seeds” approach and not enough confidence and determination. This method is true in just about any kind of athletic event. If you are playing football, you gotta hit the other guy harder than he hits you. Same principle with the nic bitch. You cannot quit fearing her. You can respect the force, but not fear it. Part of quitting is to build that confidence each day. That confidence does not get built from romanticizing the nic bitch and how awesome she is. It’s not sitting around being scared of a crave coming on or caving. No, it’s building a confidence that in fact, you are no longer a slave. You have to get past that slave mindset and get onto living like a freeman. A man that makes his decisions with his mind and heart and not from feelings. You cannot make good decisions coming from feelings – see the great heresy/church split of June. When grown men start to use feelings and emotions as a basis of decision making, nothing good comes out of it.

What are you doing to build that confidence in you today? What are you doing to build it in others? How can you go from fear to fortune? You gotta build that. You wonÂ’t ever win just learning how to escape. You will win by learning to fight and kick ass.
And IÂ’ll end with conjuring up my inner WCWBigNasty and say this. Confidence in a quitter is sexy, and if confidence is sexy, then IÂ’m a bad ass, quit like fuck, every damn day, one day at a time sexy mother fucker. I own that bitch today.

and unlike WCWBigNasty, I'll say, I'm only that way because of alll of you. Thank you for getting me here.

Great post bro. Thanks.

yet another classic! Read it everyone!

ANYBODY WHO DOESNT LIKE THIS POST FROM BRONC LET ME KNOW CAUSE ILL KICK YOUR ASS FROM HERE TO SUNDAY!!!!!

Ok. I think I just got all of the WCW BIG NASTY out of my system.

Bronc - this is a great post. Honored to quit with you today.

I've said it before and I'll say it again......you're the man, Bronc.

I love a man who tries things that everyone else says he can't do. That's my number one motivator. Bronc - keep it up and the life vignettes coming. Good stuff.