Only the rider who is free from any contraction will have a horse equally free from contraction. A team such as this is the ideal.
Nuno Oliveira
Hand without legs, Legs without hand.
François Baucher
The rider should reduce his actions to the minimum and give the horse freedom in his movements.
Etienne Beudant
The horse will become supple when it is cadenced, stiff when it rushes.
Nuno Oliveira
The biggest enemy to the partnership of dressage is impatience and the human nature to dominate other creatures.
Walter Zettl
Adjust to fit the situation.
Tom Dorrance
Make the wrong thing difficult, and the right thing easy.
Ray Hunt
Calm, forward, straight.
Alexis L´Hotte
The slower you go the faster you will learn.
Ray Hunt
It’s really amazing what a horse will do for you if he understands what you want. And it’s also quite amazing what he’ll do to you if he doesn’t.
Bill Dorrance
