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

A horse can have a job and not be a slave. He can look forward to it and enjoy it. That's the same for me.

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.

You're trying to figure out a way to meet a horse to where he can understand. And to me, it's not to train a horse, it's to try to get the horse with you where it's one mind and one body. You may spend your whole life chasing that, but it's a good thing to chase.

Nobody has to lose for me to succeed and that is a unique job. Everybody wins, horse wins, people win, I win.

Your Horse is a mirror to your soul.

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.