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You can't think of everything in life your horse might encounter that might make him afraid so you'd better prepare em for it in other ways.

Buck Brannaman

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Buck Brannaman
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 29
Horse Trainer
Non-Fiction Writer
Sheboygan
Wisconsin
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I just spend my life driving down the road, training horses and helping people.
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Horses and life, it's all the same to me.
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I take the horsemanship very seriously and I treat it with the same integrity that one would any of the fine arts.
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There is something in the human psyche that there is a connection between horses and humans, a real special kind of a thing, and I guess it’s always been there. I hope it will always be there, I hope we don’t evolve past that.
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There are things that change all through your life the way you deal with people, the way you approach problems.
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When you first get started, you're the only one with a vision. When you become creative and use your imagination, pretty soon the things you imagined, you can get done. If you got a taste of it, if you got a taste of what I'm talking about, you'd rather do that than eat. You couldn't get enough of it. You'll hunger for it the rest of your life.
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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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