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
I’ve always wanted to do the right thing by a horse, that’s never changed, its just that as my knowledge grew I’ve been able to offer the horse a better human being.
Buck Brannaman
Brutality begins where skill ends.
Egon von Neindorff
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
Phillips Brooks
The horse will become supple when it is cadenced, stiff when it rushes.
Nuno Oliveira
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
The horse responds to comfort, they respond to peace better than about anything else you could do. So if the horse responds to you and you give him a little peace and comfort that means more to him than anything.
Buck Brannaman
Ride your horse with your whole body, not just with your arms and legs.
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
The slower you go the faster you will learn.
Ray Hunt
