Charlotte Dujardin Quotes

I'd like to work with horses, but it doesn't pay very well. Maybe I'd like to go somewhere in the Middle East because they keep buying really nice horses for their Olympic teams - like, the Qataris.

I own a horse and ride, but I don't know racing or betting.

I'm about to challenge for the Maryland Cup in the next couple of years, as an owner, a trainer, and a rider.

I've always loved horses. When I was younger, I competed in horse shows and did quite well.

I've had quarter horses for the last 18 years.

I ride my horse at competition level.

I'm actually an equestrian, and I showed in the American Paint Horse Association and competed for top 20 in the nation.

I've been riding since I was maybe three or four. Ponies at first, and then I've really always been doing it since.

I grew up riding. From the time I was nineteen years old to the time I was twenty five I exercised race horses.

My first ambition was to be a show jumper. I did a bit of dressage as part of it, and the dressage trainer saw me and said, 'Why are you wasting your time with the other stuff? You should be concentrating on this.'

When I used to say I did dressage, I got blank looks. No one had a clue what I was on about.

I was very successful at three-day events, point-to-points, Pony Club, and gymkhana. But then I went to college, and because I had really good horses, they weren't going to be left in the field, so they were sold.

I've worked with horses on and off most of my life, but literally 'on and off' - flipping on them and falling off them.

What are the origins of dressage? Did just, one day, some young horse say to his dad, 'Dad, I don't want to charge into battle...I just wanna dance'?

I'm a horseback rider. I know how to use a whip.

It's going to be hard to ever have a horse to replace Valegro. He is a professor. I think he read the dressage book and learnt it all before he ever did it.

I love horse-riding - I have three back home in the U.K.

I used to be a keen rider. Sometimes I could sense what a horse liked or preferred to do.

It's about technique and getting your horse to stretch for you and to give you everything that it's got.

I wanted to be a horseback-riding trainer and to go to the Olympics as an equestrian.

Every horse I get on I can adapt to. It's like a jigsaw puzzle.

You can't do the same thing every day with the horse. Because they then know the thing inside out, and they're leading you, not the other way round. You don't want them to take over. You have to be able to ride the movements and set the movements up; you don't want them starting before you are ready.

I might have been a jockey, you know. I started by riding horses bareback and holding on to the mane before they finally threw me off.

My devotion stemmed from my mom's love of horses. I have been riding since I could walk, and the fact that my mom knew everything about horses really helped my passion grow.

I had one lesson with Devil's Horsemen, who do a lot of the horse-riding stuff for films. They train actors to look reasonable on horses. They do 'Game of Thrones', everything.