Confidence is knowing you are prepared.
Ray Hunt
You can be strict, but that doesn’t mean you have to be unfair.
Buck Brannaman
The biggest enemy to the partnership of dressage is impatience and the human nature to dominate other creatures.
Walter Zettl
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
Calm, forward, straight.
Alexis L´Hotte
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
The greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fall.
Confucius
As a conclusion of these general observations about the course of dressage training I want to add the serious admonition; not to hurry any of the exercises and to let them all follow one another in such a way that the preceding exercise always constitutes a secure basis for the next one.
Gustav Steinbrecht
In working with people and trying to help them with something, I find it isn’t easy for me to get them to work in the area where it seems they need to work. They keep trying to work at the end result.
Tom Dorrance
Brutality begins where knowledge ends. Ignorance and compulsion appear simultaneously.
Charles de Kunffy
