The first thing my dad taught me about winning was not beating yourself.  Well, that was actually the second thing.  In team roping, the first thing is about learning how not to get yourself killed.  There’s a reason the pros look like they know what they’re doing. 

Outside of Kabul, there are probably more adult males per capita missing a finger in the Texas Panhandle than anywhere else in the world.  And, I can tell you exactly how nine out of 10 lost them.  The other one is more than likely a ring finger related to a design flaw in the handles of the 40 series John Deere tractors. 

Once you learned that, it was only about not beating yourself.  You couldn’t control how good anyone else was, only how go...

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