Don’t have the tendency to want to hurry and not let the horse find it. You fix and wait for them to find it; then it’s their idea when they move their feet.
Tom Dorrance
It is a mistake to keep the horse on the bit for too long. He must be relaxed at the walk on the long rein regularly and afterwards he must be carefully put back together again.
Nuno Oliveira
It is always better to risk losing the contact a little, than not to yield at all.
Nuno Oliveira
The goal is not to raise the neck, it is to lower the hips.
Albert Decarpentry
Brutality begins where skill ends.
Egon von Neindorff
The goal of all dressage riding should be to bring the horse and rider together in harmony…a oneness of balance, purpose, and athletic expression.
Walter Zettl
One has to have an immobile hand with mobile fingers.
Nuno Oliveira
You can ask the horse to do your thing, but you ask him; you offer it to him in a good way. You fix it up and let him find it. You do not make anything happen, no more than you can make a friendship begin.
Ray Hunt
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
Phillips Brooks
You can’t teach feel, you have to experience it.
Bill Dorrance
