Looking for the good in people and animals has helped me get a better understanding of life in general.
Tom Dorrance
Make the wrong thing difficult, and the right thing easy.
Ray Hunt
Calm, forward, straight.
Alexis L´Hotte
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
Training a horse is above all feeling and trying, according to what you feel, to help the horse and not to force him.
Nuno Oliveira
First of all, I believe that dressage should be the foundation for all horse sport disciplines. But, I also think the dressage community would benefit from the skill sets that natural horsemanship principles provide.
Walter Zettl
Use hands and legs sparingly, and maintain balance through the seat.
Nuno Oliveira
I believe horses naturally have tremendous faith in the human being. It is their natural instinct of selfpreservation that the person needs to understand in order to gain the confidence of the horse.
Tom Dorrance
Once the horse gets to responding, then you try to get the response you are asking for with less. You try to cut down what you are applying and get more response with less pressure, until it almost gets to be just a thought.
Tom Dorrance
The horse is a reflection of the rider‘s ability.
Ray Hunt
