When the horse is standing, before you reach to ask him to go forward or back, or turn right or left; before you ask him, have a picture in your mind of what you are going to ask him to do, and how you expect him to respond before you start.
Tom Dorrance
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
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
Phillips Brooks
Training a horse is above all feeling and trying, according to what you feel, to help the horse and not to force him.
Nuno Oliveira
Confidence is knowing you are prepared.
Ray Hunt
You feel and listen to the horse. The experience of the results of his response helps you understand for the next time.
Tom Dorrance
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
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
Where you end up your ride on a horse is so important. It’s a little bit like when you were young and you were datingthat last two minutes of the date can be a real deal breaker. With these horses it’s the same thing… You got to quit on a good note.
Buck Brannaman
You’re not working on the horse, you’re working on yourself.
Ray Hunt
