The horse knows where the person is all the time. Now we are trying to help the person know where the horse is all the time. The horse knows where the person is; the person needs to learn to catch up with the horse on that.
Tom Dorrance
The secret in riding is to do few things right. The more one does, the less one succeeds. The less one does, the more one succeeds.
Nuno Oliveira
The hands have to be like concrete when the horse resists and like butter when he yields.
Nuno Oliveira
The rider should reduce his actions to the minimum and give the horse freedom in his movements.
Etienne Beudant
Where you end up your ride on a horse is so important. It’s a little bit like when you were young and you were datingthat last two minutes of the date can be a real deal breaker. With these horses it’s the same thing… You got to quit on a good note.
Buck Brannaman
We are fallible. We certainly haven’t attained perfection. But we can strive for it, and the virtue is in the striving.
Carlos P. Romulo
Mistakes of the legs show up in the mouth.
Nuno Oliveira
The horse may not be doing the thing that is the right thing for what the rider is asking him, but as far as the horse is concerned, he is doing the right thing.
Tom Dorrance
The goal is not to raise the neck, it is to lower the hips.
Albert Decarpentry
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
