You feel and listen to the horse. The experience of the results of his response helps you understand for the next time.
Tom Dorrance
In working with people and trying to help them with something, I find it isn’t easy for me to get them to work in the area where it seems they need to work. They keep trying to work at the end result.
Tom Dorrance
Every time the rider forgets to regulate the cadence, the horse begins to take control.
Nuno Oliveira
The hands have to be like concrete when the horse resists and like butter when he yields.
Nuno Oliveira
I’m still on the move, I’m getting better because I’m still studying. I still want to be a better horseman.
Buck Brannaman
Mistakes of the legs show up in the mouth.
Nuno Oliveira
The goal of all dressage riding should be to bring the horse and rider together in harmony…a oneness of balance, purpose, and athletic expression.
Walter Zettl
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
Phillips Brooks
If you are going to teach a horse something and have a good relationship, you don’t make him learn it you let him learn it.
Ray Hunt
You can’t teach feel, you have to experience it.
Bill Dorrance
