Monty Roberts > Quotes

“If you act like you've only got fifteen minutes, it will take all day. Act like you've got all day, it will take fifteen minutes.”
― 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, The Horses in My Life

“No being has the right to say to another, "Do this, or I will hurt you".”
― Monty Roberts

“The elimination of laborious asks should not, however, lead us to conclude that man's journey with the horse is over. It is just beginning. We are now free to exist with horses without the pressures experienced in former times.”
― Monty Roberts, From My Hands to Yours: Lessons from a Lifetime of Training Championship Horses

“Seu maior aliado nessa incrível expansão de poder e influência foi o cavalo.
Usando cordas, chicotes e qualquer tática cruel que pudesse engendrar, Genghis Khan utilizou a força, a estamina e a velocidade do cavalo.
Os cavalos não tinham como reagir àquela crueldade. Eles não tinham voz. Mas... eles tinham uma língua. Ninguém viu isso, ninguém tentou ver isso, mas ela estava lá; ela existia naqueles tempos como existe hoje.”
― Monty Roberts, The Man Who Listens to Horses

“If you are involved with horses, then you should think horses, just as the astronomer has his head in the stars. The process does not begin when you arrive at the barn to meet your horse; it begins when you wake up in the morning and exists even as you sleep.”
― Monty Roberts, From My Hands to Yours 2nd Edition

“Abuse is more apt to occur when a trainer perceives that he is personally under attack.”
― Monty Roberts, Horse Sense for People: The Man Who Listens to Horses Talks to People

“called Xenophone”
― Monty Roberts, The Man Who Listens to Horses