Mistakes of the legs show up in the mouth.
Nuno Oliveira
When the horse is standing, before you reach to ask him to go forward or back, or turn right or left; before you ask him, have a picture in your mind of what you are going to ask him to do, and how you expect him to respond before you start.
Tom Dorrance
You feel and listen to the horse. The experience of the results of his response helps you understand for the next time.
Tom Dorrance
You’re not working on the horse, you’re working on yourself.
Ray Hunt
The goal is not to raise the neck, it is to lower the hips.
Albert Decarpentry
Recognize the smallest change, the slightest try.
Ray Hunt
Use hands and legs sparingly, and maintain balance through the seat.
Nuno Oliveira
Now when the whole horse is together, he will feel good to you, I am sure. All we are trying to do is to fix these things up to where he can find them, then it’s the horse’s idea. But that is a little easier said than done.
Tom Dorrance
As a conclusion of these general observations about the course of dressage training I want to add the serious admonition; not to hurry any of the exercises and to let them all follow one another in such a way that the preceding exercise always constitutes a secure basis for the next one.
Gustav Steinbrecht
The slower you go the faster you will learn.
Ray Hunt
