95 Quotes by Buck Brannaman

They say nerves heal real slowly. Lots of things about us heal real slowly.

All your horse looks for is the thing that matters most, peace and contentment. Give it to him.

As parents, we have a chance when our children are young to turn them into good citizens rather than wait for the government to raise them for us.

Horses are very sensitive and perceptive. You don’t have to be physical with them.

If the horse hurts an owner, the animal gets the blame. The BLM also created a program in which prisoners are given the opportunity to work with captive wild horses. They gentle them and get them to the point where they are ridable. This is an excellent idea.

Most of you who are reading this book feel a deep-down ancient bond, a connection between yourself and horses.

Whether one was going to have a horse, or a dog, or a child, with that comes a great responsibility to raise them.

As a rider, you must slowly and methodically show your horse what is appropriate. You also have to discourage what’s inappropriate, not by making the inappropriate impossible, but by making it difficult so that the horse himself chooses appropriate behavior. You can’t choose it for him; you can only make it difficult for him to make the wrong choices. If, however, you make it impossible for him to make the wrong choices, you’re making war.

There are things that change all through your life the way you deal with people, the way you approach problems.