At the beginning of last week I thought, OK, I just won't get on any practice bulls in order to let the swelling go down so I would be ready to go in Des Moines. I called Tandy's office because he said something about wanting to get some x-rays.

He wanted to come in on Wednesday and whenever I showed to get the x-rays they said that my finger was pretty much broke in half and that I some more bones broke behind my knuckle, and that in order to fix it I would need to have surgery.

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It's been going good lately, but I want to win.

If you want to win bad enough you have to just go out there and do what it takes to win, and – honestly – fourth or fifth isn't winning first. Yeah, it's good, but at the end of the day the only guy you remember is the guy who won first and that happens to be Adriano and Dustin this weekend.

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I would say Zack Brown is a cowboy, but he'll tell you that he's not a cowboy. He's a surfer, but he's a tough, scrappy little sum-buck, and he'll try his [guts out] every time he nods his head.

Obviously that's what has gotten him to where he's at right now--he tries and he does not know the word quit. He's a world-class, extremely nice guy.

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There's no doubt that the way Guilherme has ridden all year that he's ridden like a World Champion and he's ridden like the type of guy that should be sitting in first place. That's why he's there right now.

On the other side of that he is still human. That guy is hurting pretty bad right now, but instead of him turning out and sitting at home he's doing what the guy who wants to win the world does--he's coming out here and he's playing with that pain.

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