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
Listen to the horse. Try to find out what the horse is trying to tell you. All we are trying to do is fix things up to where he can find them; then it’s the horse’s idea.
Tom Dorrance
Looking for the good in people and animals has helped me get a better understanding of life in general.
Tom Dorrance
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 most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Amelia Earhart
Ride your horse with your whole body, not just with your arms and legs.
Ray Hunt
You can’t teach feel, you have to experience it.
Bill Dorrance
Through the years, I have worked with so many riders who have given me their best, their time, their attention and their willing effort. We’ve worked together through these shared experiences that have been so valuable in my search for ways to build greater unity for the horse and the rider.
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 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
