The biggest enemy to the partnership of dressage is impatience and the human nature to dominate other creatures.
Walter Zettl
As the blind person touches the object before him very softly and lightly with his fingertips in order not to interfere with the work of the sensitive nerve ends by too much pressure, so it is the rider’s first obligation to keep soft and natural those parts of his body with which he feels his horse.
Gustav Steinbrecht
Hand without legs, Legs without hand.
François Baucher
The thing you are trying to help the horse do is to use his own mind. You are trying to present something and then let him figure out how to get there.
Tom Dorrance
You’re not working on the horse, you’re working on yourself.
Ray Hunt
Adjust to fit the situation.
Tom Dorrance
You need to have a picture in your mind of what you want your horse to do.
Ray Hunt
Mistakes of the legs show up in the mouth.
Nuno Oliveira
Make the wrong thing difficult, and the right thing easy.
Ray Hunt
When I hear somebody talk about a horse or cow being stupid; I figure it’s a sure sign that the animal has somehow outfoxed them.
Tom Dorrance
