This means staying away from drinking and smoking, or at least taking these things in moderation. You are away from your family spending most of the year in an automobile, motel rooms, and cafes. I often traveled 75,000 miles in a year. You've got to have an understanding family who is behind you. If they're not, it puts too much pressure on you to win.
Nobody can win consistently that way.
Every time you go out, you can't be having those kind of worries on your mind, you just can't hack it. When you have children in school, you have to settle for having them with you only during the summer months. A typical week or two on the rodeo circuit in the mid-sixties could get pretty hectic. For example, one of my weeks began on a Sunday, when I had just got done at Calgary. I came here to the Nampa rodeo, which started on Tuesday.