Pat Parelli

"Horsemanship can be obtained naturally through psychology, communication, and understanding,versus mechanics, fear and intimidation"

"If all I did was teach you to think like a horse and truly understand their psychology, you’d have the keys to be able to do whatever you want with horses, and to win their hearts"

"We want to thank you for including us in your work, and we would love to be a part of this site. Please do include us! Best wishes!"

Monty Roberts

"My life's goal is to leave the world a better place than I found it, for horses and for people, too"

Buck Brannaman

"I've started horses since I was 12 years old and have been bit, kicked, bucked off and run over. I've tried every physical means to contain my horse in an effort to keep from getting myself killed. 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"

Jessica Jahiel

"What I teach is Holistic Horsemanship®. This is a term that should be redundant, but unfortunately is not. I've found that most riders know something about showing, most haven't been lucky enough to learn much about classical correct riding, and too many have been taught riding, but nothing about horsemanship. I teach them to consider the total horse in its total environment: how to deal with it outside the show ring; what its life is like, apart from the daily 45 minutes under saddle; how its living conditions affect its health and behaviour, etc"

"You are very welcome to create a link to my site! Best of luck in your efforts! It would be a wonderful thing if everyone who trained a horse would understand its nature and treat it kindly and well, and I applaud you for encouraging this"

Ray Hunt

"Working with the horse is a way of life for me. He's my livelihood, my hobby, my passion. If given a little thought, a little understanding, and a little common sense, the horse gives back in full measure. If the human can give 5%, the horse will come from the other side with 95%. The horse never ceases to amaze me with what he can get done with very little help from the human"

Tom Dorrance

"I believe horses naturally have tremendous faith in the human being. It is their natural instinct of self-preservation that the person needs to understand in order to gain the confidence of the horse"

"The horse knows where the person is all the time. Now we are trying to help the person know where the horse is all the time. The horse knows where the person is; the person needs to learn to catch up with the horse on that"

"The thing you are trying to help the horse do is to use his own mind. You are trying to present something and then let him figure out how to get there"

John Lyons

"I think that our own Creator just wants us to say "yes" to Him, to acknowledge Him as God. Then other things change almost automatically. We don't tell our horse, "You get yourself squared away and doing lots of trained-horse things, then come talk to me about being my horse." God doesn't ask us to clean up our act and do lots of religious things, either. Just as we ask our horse for lots of little yes's, God only asks for little yes's from us. The result of our saying "yes" is that we are calmer and more peaceful, just as the horse is more peaceful when he learns to say "yes" to us"

"Think about just asking your horse to say, "yes," and before long you'll find yourself riding down the trail with a perfect horse"