Rode them in high school Rodeo Club. Getting bucked off a bull is a lot closer to the ground than getting bucked off a horse.
If I have to deal with them, it's best I do so from the comfortable ground of the working pen. That way I have a fence to run to and scramble up on before said herbivore tramples me into paste...
I have very tame cows. Pets, really. Years ago, when the herd was cheap heifers found at the auction (aka Other People's Problems) and an exceedingly ornery bull, I had to make sure nobody got in my blind spot. Nowadays, it's hard to devote the proper attention to the ears and waddles that need scratching.
I much prefer the tame cows.