It is always better to risk losing the contact a little, than not to yield at all.
Nuno Oliveira
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
The goal is not to raise the neck, it is to lower the hips.
Albert Decarpentry
The greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fall.
Confucius
Looking for the good in people and animals has helped me get a better understanding of life in general.
Tom Dorrance
Mistakes of the legs show up in the mouth.
Nuno Oliveira
You feel and listen to the horse. The experience of the results of his response helps you understand for the next time.
Tom Dorrance
The secret in riding is to do few things right. The more one does, the less one succeeds. The less one does, the more one succeeds.
Nuno Oliveira
The biggest enemy to the partnership of dressage is impatience and the human nature to dominate other creatures.
Walter Zettl
If you are going to teach a horse something and have a good relationship, you don’t make him learn it you let him learn it.
Ray Hunt
