Monty Roberts Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
-
“The number one worst piece of horsemanship on earth is violence.”
-- Monty Roberts -
“A good trainer can hear a horse speak to him. A great trainer can hear him whisper.”
-- Monty Roberts -
“For centuries, humans have said to horses, 'You do what I tell you or I'll hurt you.' Humans still say that to each other -- still threaten, force and intimidate. I'm convinced that my discoveries with horses have value in the workplace, in the educational and penal systems, and in the raising of children. At heart, I'm saying that no one else has the right to say 'you must' to an animal -- or to another human.”
-- Monty Roberts -
“The greatest strength a man can achieve is gentleness.”
-- Monty Roberts -
“If you act like you've only got fifteen minutes, it'll take all day. Act like you've got all day and it'll take fifteen minutes.”
-- Monty Roberts -
“Trust is established by working around horses in an utterly predictable manner.”
-- Monty Roberts -
“I had been riding horses before my memory kicked in, so my life with horses had no beginning. It simply appeared from the fog of infancy. I survived a difficult childhood by traveling on the backs of horses, and in adulthood the pattern didn't change.”
-- Monty Roberts -
“Horses react appropriately while waiting for the human to get it right.”
-- Monty Roberts -
“The wonder of Independence is that it encourages open minds and the desire to improve.”
-- Monty Roberts -
“A boy is a long time before he knows his alphabet, longer before he has learned to spell, and perhaps several years before he can read distinctly; and yet there are some people who, as soon as they get on a horse, entirely undressed and untaught, fancy that by beating and spurring they will make him a dressed horse in one morning only. I would fain ask such stupid people whether by beating a boy they would teach him to read without first showing him the alphabet? Sure, they would beat him to death, before they would make him read.”
-- Monty Roberts -
“It is not good enough to get your horse to do what you want. It is far better to cause your horse to want to do it.”
-- Monty Roberts -
“You must somehow understand that we as horsemen can do very little to teach the horse. What we can do is to create an environment in which he can learn.”
-- Monty Roberts -
“When training young horses "There are many types of bits for many different disciplines, but the severity of ALL bits lies in the hands holding them."”
-- Monty Roberts
You may also like:
-
Buck Brannaman
Horse trainer -
Joe Camp
Film director -
John Forsythe
Television actor -
Nicholas Evans
Journalist -
Robert Redford
Actor -
Allan Hamilton
Physician