Rider Quotes
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I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up.
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Once more upon the waters! yet once more! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider.
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The Dark Lord has Nine. But we have One, mightier than they: the White Rider. He has passed through the fire and the abyss, and they shall fear him. We will go where he leads.
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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.
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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.
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When the rider demands the piaffe, he has to halt the horse a few strides before the latter wants to stop of his own accord.
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There is one principle that should never be abandoned, namely, that the rider must learn to control himself before he can control his horse. This is the basic, most important principle to be preserved in equitation.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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The best horses walk through the gates and they grow and rise to the occasion. They feel like they can do anything and that gives the rider confidence in return.
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The goal of all dressage riding should be to bring the horse and rider together in harmony...a oneness of balance, purpose, and athletic expression.
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How can you be that which you possess? You cannot be the horse and rider at the same time. Herein lies the secret of mortality and immortality.
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And she looked at him and saw the grave tenderness in his eyes, and yet knew, for she was bred among men of war, that here was one whom no Rider of the Mark could outmatch in battle.
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Whenever difficulties appear, the rider must ask himself: does the horse not want execute my demands, does he not understand what I want, or is he physically unable to carry them out? The rider's conscience must find the answer.
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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.
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It's a lot like nuts and bolts - if the rider's nuts, the horse bolts!
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A horse will never tire of a rider who possesses both tact and sensitivity because he will never be pushed beyond his possibilities.
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You get that horse to really operate as if he’s your legs and you can take that anywhere you want. You can dress up in any kind of clothes you like. You can be a jumper, dressage rider, trail rider, cowboy, anything.
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A good rider on a good horse is as much above himself and others as the world can make him.
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Equestrian art is the perfect understanding and harmony between horse and rider.
