Thatโs my credo - My work is play. I donโt complain about work. I enjoy it. I like the feeling of being able to lay down at night and youโre so doggone tired, youโre just hoping to get undressed before you fall asleep.
Buck BrannamanThe horse is a gift to us, to humanity. And for that, there comes responsibility. If the horse is gonna work for you and work with you, then the best thing I can do for the horse is to make it as good a life possible.
Buck BrannamanYou don't have contempt for a horse that's troubled. Everybody has baggage, everybody has things that they've had to deal with in their life, and it can be something positive depending on how you use it.
Buck BrannamanAs 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.
Buck BrannamanWith a horse, if you make it easy for him to do the right thing, that's what he will logically do, but it's not necessarily true with the human. You will see humans that will beat their heads against the wall rather than open the door and walk through it.
Buck BrannamanThe horse seems to wanna please the human and so many times if the human isnโt much of a leader well then the horse has gotta do itโs own thinking. The horse isnโt really designed very well to be the leader but just because the horse is responding to ya, I donโt really think of it as it succumbing to you. I think itโs more of the horse sort of joining you, being more of a partner.
Buck Brannaman