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Horses and life, it's all the same to me.

Buck Brannaman

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Buck Brannaman
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 29
Horse Trainer
Non-Fiction Writer
Sheboygan
Wisconsin
Horses
Horse
Life

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My work is my play. I found a way to make my passion to be the same as how I make a living.
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Whether it's horses or whatever it is you do, it doesn't become an art until your soul goes into what you do.
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Some guys make their careers off one horse kind of a trick horse, a wonder horse. I'm not knocking that, but for me I'm trying to get better and study. That means taking out new horses. It's a life study. When I've finished a horse, I turn him out and basically stop riding him, except taking him to the occasional branding so I can enjoy him.
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There are things that the horse did for me that a human couldn't have done.
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Timing is everything.
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When riding, ask yourself what will my horse get out of it if I get what I want? Many times, human nature is to take and to not give anything back.
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You want your kids to feel happy and good about themselves. The rest they'll work out on their own. You never know what your kids will be drawn to.
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I just spend my life driving down the road, training horses and helping people.
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When you're younger, you ride with 90% physical and 10% mental. But if you could learn how to use 90% mental and 10% physical you'd be better off.
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Nobody has to lose for me to succeed and that is a unique job. Everybody wins, horse wins, people win, I win.
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It’s not about how much pressure you put on, it’s how good you are at taking it off.
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Don't get on a horse that's moving.
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Whether one was going to have a horse, or a dog, or a child, with that comes a great responsibility to raise them.
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When you see a horse that’s troubled, you sort of feel sorry for them, yet that doesn’t mean that you wouldn’t still ask the horse to behave and find a way to fit in and respond to you as well.
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The horse needs to respect you, but sometimes people confuse respect & fear. And they're not the same at all.
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You can't look forward and backward at the same time...........so I choose to look forward.
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It's a matter of timing and of patience. Although it may seem nothing is happening on the surface, there may yet be profound changes occurring a little deeper. Waiting isn't bad.
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I started to realize that things would come much easier for me once I learned why a horse does what he does. This method works well for me because of the kinship that develops between horse and rider.
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The comforting thing to the horse is, is as you become more and more accurate, he knows you’re aware of him, and pretty soon because of that he’s aware of you more and more of the time.
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The road may bend out of sight at times, but I know what lies ahead: the faraway horses.
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