“Train as if you had to bring the horse down, not the rider. Fight bulls, not men, and men won’t best you.”
“Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.”
“Maybe all men are a drug. Sometimes they bring you down and sometimes, like now, they get you so high.”
“A human's best training is with his shadow. You have to fight with your shadow.”
“Men of intellect did not, as a rule, bring home stray women who insisted on flinging themselves on horses.”
“Nothin’ bucks like a bull . . . rider.”