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
The biggest enemy to the partnership of dressage is impatience and the human nature to dominate other creatures.
Walter Zettl
Make the wrong thing difficult, and the right thing easy.
Ray Hunt
You can be strict, but that doesn’t mean you have to be unfair.
Buck Brannaman
The horse will become supple when it is cadenced, stiff when it rushes.
Nuno Oliveira
You’re not working on the horse, you’re working on yourself.
Ray Hunt
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 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 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
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
