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You can't make something happen with a horse, but you can fix things up and let it happen.

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Buck Brannaman
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 29
Horse Trainer
Non-Fiction Writer
Sheboygan
Wisconsin
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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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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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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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Solutions to problems often come from knowing when to ask for help.
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They say nerves heal real slowly. Lots of things about us heal real slowly.
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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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Horses and life, it's all the same to me.
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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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There are things that the horse did for me that a human couldn't have done.
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Controlling your emotions is the biggest challenge for a horseman.
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A lot of times, rather than helping people with horse problems, I'm helping horses with people problems.
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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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You can't look forward and backward at the same time...........so I choose to look forward.
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That's the cool thing about horses - they don't have prejudice. They don't care if you're tall or thin or if you're dark or if you're light, or if you're rich or you're poor, if you're handsome or not so handsome.
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Every time you interact with a horse, you are teaching the horse.
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Horses are incredibly forgiving. They fill in places we're not capable of filling ourselves.
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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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You don't have contempt for a horse that's troubled. Everybody has baggage, everybody has things that they've had to deal with in their life, and it can be something positive depending on how you use it.
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I don't believe in waiting for a horse to do the wrong thing and then punishing him after the fact. You can't just say no to a horse. You have to redirect a negative behavior with a positive one, something that works for both of you. It's as though you're saying - instead of doing that, we can do this together.
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A horse can have a job and not be a slave. He can look forward to it and enjoy it. That's the same for me.
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