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Don't get on a horse that's moving.

Buck Brannaman

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

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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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Solutions to problems often come from knowing when to ask for help.
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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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Every time you interact with a horse, you are teaching the horse.
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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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I often tell people in the clinics, the human possesses the one thing that means more to the horse than anything in the world, and that is peace and comfort.
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Horses aren't lazy and they're not greedy and they're not jealous and they're not spiteful, they're not hateful. They're not that way. But the human can sometimes only describe a horse in the way that they view other human beings.
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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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Someone who doesn't know anything about the ways of the horse could be fooled into thinking the approach is all cosmic or mystical. It's not. Anybody can do it who has a passion to do it and has put in enough time. These people are horsemen and horsewomen, not whisperers.
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Horses are incredibly forgiving. They fill in places we're not capable of filling ourselves.
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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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Most people think of a feel as when you touch something or someone and what it feels like to your fingers but, a feel can have a thousand different definitions. Sometimes feel is a mental thing. Sometimes feel can happen clear ‘cross the arena. Sort of an invitation from the horse to come to you.
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Horses are very sensitive and perceptive. You don't have to be physical with them.
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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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The horse is so honest.... they live in the moment. And what they do, whether they need to protect themselves or whether they need to accept you really is directly relative to how you make them feel.
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Like Tom Dorrance said, ‘It boiled down to one thing: observe, remember, and compare.’ Do something, observe what you did, remember what you did, compare it to what you were doing before, and adjust.
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Timing is everything.
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There are things that the horse did for me that a human couldn't have done.
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