Buck Brannaman Quotes

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

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• The minute I put my leg on a horse and say, 'Come on, let's go,' I absolutely believe that the horse and I can do it and that we will do it. And I am always shocked when we actually don't do it. If the analytical mind ever overrode that optimist in me, I'd be in some serious trouble.

  

  Ian Millar
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Serious

• Ben Stiller, who I love and who is a friend and is such an incredible actor - he's hilarious, obviously, but I thought his performance in 'Greenberg' was extraordinary.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Love
  • Friend
  • Thought

• My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that's why I've been seen as mature.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Parents
  • Kid
  • Mature

• I went to a Christian school, and as a kid, we weren't allowed to really watch anything violent, even 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.'

  

  Maggie Grace
  • School
  • Christian
  • Kid

• Perhaps at some time in the future, when you ask a friend to come up and look at your etchings, you will plug in your collection of video art.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • Up
  • Time
  • Art

• I was always fascinated with rock 'n' roll, or girls, or something like that when I was a kid.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Rock
  • Always
  • Kid

• Up to nineteen seventy six when I quit gymnastics I was very, disappointed because I didn't have anything which is, live with. I didn't have a friend so I didn't have a coach anymore.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • Up
  • Live
  • Friend

• Rock n' roll was a kid when I was a kid.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Rock
  • Kid
  • Roll

• I lived in Norway and Texas when I was a kid.

  

  Jackson Rathbone
  • Kid
  • Texas
  • Lived

• As we know, all sports evolve tremendously, and our sport is no different. It's really not the same thing at all as it was in 1972. It's a different type of horse we're using. The style of riding is quite evolved, the way the courses are built, the materials used... it's virtually unrecognizable.

  

  Ian Millar
  • Different
  • Style
  • Sports

• You can't get angry with a horse. They will get angry and frisky with you.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • You
  • Angry
  • Horse

• Did you ever hear of a kid playing accountant - even if they wanted to be one?

  

  Jackie Mason
  • You
  • Kid
  • Accountant

• Everything comes back to the horse, which is why I love it. You put your ego aside, and you concentrate on getting the best performance out of this creature.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Love
  • Why
  • Best

• Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with? Probably the one that I haven't hung most with recently.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Kids
  • Song
  • You

• Diamonds are a girl's best friend, and dogs are a man's best friend. Now you know which sex has more sense.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Man
  • Girl
  • Friend

• The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one. A Stanford study showed that those who saw a photo of their future self made smarter financial decisions.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • Future
  • Respect
  • Friend

• I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • House
  • Song
  • Friend

• When I was a kid, I inhaled. Frequently. That was the point.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Kid
  • Point
  • Inhale

• Well, if you told me you were drowning, I would not lend a hand. I've seen your face before my friend But I don't know if you know who I am. Well, I was there and I saw what you did I saw it with my own two eyes. So you can wipe off that grin, I know where you've been. It's all been a pack of lies

  

  Phil Collins Genesis
  • Friend
  • Eyes
  • Hand

• I think Delhiites know how to party, but Kolkata has people who know how to celebrate. I think that's the main difference.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • People
  • Party
  • Celebrate

• I know what I can know, and am not troubled about what I cannot know.

  

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte
  • I Know
  • Troubled

• A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support, respect or professional counsel.

  

  Elizabeth Blackwell
  • Respect
  • Support
  • Wall

• 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
  • Friend
  • Horse
  • Kid