Confidence is knowing you are prepared.
Ray Hunt
The thing you are trying to help the horse do is to use his own mind. You are trying to present something and then let him figure out how to get there.
Tom Dorrance
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
You’re not working on the horse, you’re working on yourself.
Ray Hunt
Let your idea become the horse‘s idea.
Ray Hunt
The rider needs to recognize the horse’s need for self-preservation in mind, body, and the third factor spirit…….he needs to realize how the person’s approach can assure the horse that he can have his self-preservation and still respond to what the person is asking him to do.
Tom Dorrance
The horse will teach you if you‘ll listen.
Ray Hunt
Calm, forward, straight.
Alexis L´Hotte
The hands have to be like concrete when the horse resists and like butter when he yields.
Nuno Oliveira
Trust and respect are two-way streets. We want the horse to accept us as leaders of the herd, to guide them safely and to provide protection and comfort. In return, they will give us their respect, and willing submission to our ideas about what to do next, and when and where. But this respect can only be based on well deserved trust.
Walter Zettl
