Buck Brannaman Quotes About Horses

Quotes about: Horses

• Horses are very keen on body language, and what I refer to as “presence”, and expression. They know quite a bit about you before you ever get to ‘em. They can read things about you clear across an arena.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Animal, Expression

  "The Real “Horse Whisperer”". Interview with Andrew Howley, voices.nationalgeographic.org. June 16, 2011.

• I don't want the horse to get trained, because training the horse is absolutely finite. But if you get the horse to where he operates as if to be your legs, an extension of you, you've far-exceeded that whole training notion.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Training, Legs

• The horse is a great equalizer, he doesn't care how good looking you are, or how rich you are or how powerful you are-- he takes you for how you make him feel.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Powerful, Animal

• The horse is a gift to us, to humanity. And for that, there comes responsibility. If the horse is gonna work for you and work with you, then the best thing I can do for the horse is to make it as good a life possible.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Responsibility, Humanity

• The horse saved my life, so that's kind of why I'll spend the rest of mine trying to help them.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Trying, Helping

• I’ve always wanted to do the right thing by a horse, that’s never changed, its just that as my knowledge grew I’ve been able to offer the horse a better human being, as time has gone on.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Gone, Able

• 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.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Believe, Waiting

• The horse responds to comfort, they respond to peace better than about anything else you could do. All he wants you to do is just leave him alone. So if the horse responds to you and you give him a little peace and comfort that means more to him than anything.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Mean, Giving

• Horses don’t think the same as humans. Something that’s most unique about the horse, that I love, is not what he possesses but what he doesn’t possess. And that is greed, spite, hate, jealousy, envy, prejudice. The horse doesn’t possess any of those things. If you think about people, the least desirable people to be around usually possess some or all of those things. And the way God made the horse, he left that out.

  Buck Brannaman

  Jealousy, Horse, Hate

• With a horse, if you make it easy for him to do the right thing, that's what he will logically do, but it's not necessarily true with the human. You will see humans that will beat their heads against the wall rather than open the door and walk through it.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Wall, Doors

• Nobody has to lose for me to succeed and that is a unique job. Everybody wins, horse wins, people win, I win.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Jobs, Winning

• And for a lot of people, they want it all to be fuzzy and warm and cosmic, but it's no different with a horse than with a kid...You can't always be the kid's best friend. First you have to be the parent.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Kids, People

• Think of the horse as your partner.and it's all one great dance.
  That's not to say it's always going to be easy or you won't have to work through issues.
  But when a horse is troubled or uncomfortable in our world, rather than show contempt for him, you must demonstrate empathy and work to convince him that you mean him no harm.
  You have some things that you'd like him to do 'with you', as opposed to 'for you'- and the best way to do that is as partners.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Mean, Thinking

• Horses are incredibly forgiving. They fill in places we're not capable of filling ourselves.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Forgiving, Filling

• 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.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Jealous, Views

• 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.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Live In The Moment, Needs

• Whether it's horses or whatever it is you do, it doesn't become an art until your soul goes into what you do.

  Buck Brannaman

  Art, Horse, Soul

• Every time you interact with a horse, you are teaching the horse.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Teaching

• Anytime you are with a horse, no matter if you are a daily rider or one who just gets a chance to ride to the mailbox, you are interacting with your horse. It is all about the quality of the communication, not the quantity. Doing something right once in a while will far surpass anything done wrong more often.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Communication, Quality

• 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.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Giving, Riding

• Horses are consistent and logical. The horse will do what is easiest for him. If you make it easy for him to buck you off, kick you, and run away, that’s just what he’s going to do. And more power to him. But if you make it easy for the horse to be relaxed and calm and accurate — and also have it be a beautiful dance between you and the horse — it won’t be too long before he’ll be hunting for that just as hard as you are. Whatever you make easy for the horse, that’s what he’s going to get good at.

  Buck Brannaman

  Beautiful, Running, Horse

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

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse

• The horse can just be a great vehicle for some people to overcome things in their life that they might not be able to overcome otherwise.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, People, Overcoming

• The horse needs to respect you, but sometimes people confuse respect & fear. And they're not the same at all.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, People, Needs

• When you find that the horse is compelled and interested in you, something in you changes. That can be healing or move you deeply.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Moving, Healing

  Source: www.americancowboy.com

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