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I just spend my life driving down the road, training horses and helping people.

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Buck Brannaman
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 29
Horse Trainer
Non-Fiction Writer
Sheboygan
Wisconsin
Spend
Helping
Life
People
Horses
Driving
Road
Horse
Training

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When you find that the horse is compelled and interested in you, something in you changes. That can be healing or move you deeply.
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There have been so many times over the years where people have said Man, I thought I was just coming to this deal to get a little handier with my horse and I'll say Well, in the beginning, I thought that's all you were coming for too. But it turns out it's about something else.
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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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Don't get on a horse that's moving.
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If I heard it once, I’ve heard it a thousand times from Ray Hunt. He said 'make the wrong thing difficult and the right thing easy'. Then he said 'but don’t make the wrong thing impossible'. Well.....you learn from making mistakes. It’s that simple.
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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.
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You get that horse to really operate as if he’s your legs and you can take that anywhere you want. You can dress up in any kind of clothes you like. You can be a jumper, dressage rider, trail rider, cowboy, anything.
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Every time you interact with a horse, you are teaching the horse.
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You have to plan ahead so that rather then seek revenge for the horse's misbehavior, you see his aggressive behavior shaping up and can redirect it. You change his mind before he's acted and move on to something else.
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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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Horses are very sensitive and perceptive. You don't have to be physical with them.
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There are things that the horse did for me that a human couldn't have done.
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One of the biggest challenges of a horsemen is to be able tot control your emotions.
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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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Your Horse is a mirror to your soul.
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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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If you miss the beginning, the basics, then you are destined to go back and visit the basics.
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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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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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As far as horses go, people will ask about one breed versus another. I have to tell you, I really don't have any prejudice one way or another. I treat every horse at face value, how he/she is as an individual.
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