A lot of people, they want it all to be fuzzy and warm and cosmic, but it’s no different with a horse than with a kid…You can’t always be the kid’s best friend. First you have to be the parent.
Buck Brannaman
You need to have a picture in your mind of what you want your horse to do.
Ray Hunt
Hand without legs, Legs without hand.
François Baucher
The horse will become supple when it is cadenced, stiff when it rushes.
Nuno Oliveira
You can’t teach feel, you have to experience it.
Bill Dorrance
Let your idea become the horse‘s idea.
Ray Hunt
It is a mistake to keep the horse on the bit for too long. He must be relaxed at the walk on the long rein regularly and afterwards he must be carefully put back together again.
Nuno Oliveira
At each stage of work the horse must be taken to his limit, but never over the limit.
Walter Zettl
When I hear somebody talk about a horse or cow being stupid; I figure it’s a sure sign that the animal has somehow outfoxed them.
Tom Dorrance
I’ve always wanted to do the right thing by a horse, that’s never changed, its just that as my knowledge grew I’ve been able to offer the horse a better human being.
Buck Brannaman
