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Q: What was it like growing up in Mesquite, and who were the biggest influences on your early rodeo career?

Mesquite, Texas, was the place to be at the time, especially in the rodeo business. Back in that day, Mesquite was considered a rodeo capital, because of all the rodeo cowboys who lived around there. And the TNN broadcast of the Mesquite Championship Rodeo did a lot for the sport. The biggest influences on me as a young man were Donnie and Pete Gay. I watched them ride bulls at Mesquite, and

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