95 Quotes by Buck Brannaman

I started to realize that things would come much easier for me once I learned why a horse does what he does. This method works well for me because of the kinship that develops between horse and rider.

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.

You try to do as little as you can, but you need to do as much as is necessary to get a result. When you get a result, you do less.

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.

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.

Simply put; I’m trying to see what I can get done with the horse without him being troubled about doing it.

That absolute pure honesty of the horse, man that’s just the greatest thing there is.

I take the horsemanship very seriously and I treat it with the same integrity that one would any of the fine arts.

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.