Riding was a full contact art like the martial arts. Full contact with the emotions, spirit and thoughts with the animal.
Bettina Drummond on Nuno Oliveira

"the inconsistencies in what you think you are doing and what you are doing, is what makes it seem like forever." Buck Brannaman

feel, timing and balance. I still can't improve on those three words, but there is so much that goes on within that.

Tom Dorrance

It is all about their responsiveness mentally not physically

Buck Brannaman

It only takes a couple of minutes
of sorry riding a day to make
a dull horse.

Buck Brannaman

The first lesson you must learn
is to look at yourself .... learn to look at things from the horses' perspective and see you from their point of view.
Adiva Murphy

Fear of loss is greater than the desire to gain.
Jeffrey Gitomer