William Cavendish Quotes

Horses teach you patience and how to do things the right way so you can get the right result.

I wouldn't mind starting to ride some more if I had a really good horse to just work a little bit with every day.

I don't play polo anymore because I am too old. But we still have a half a dozen horses - a couple of young horses we are teaching how to play polo and older horses that are real trustworthy when you get them up in the mountains.

I started spending time at stables with my daughter while she was riding. I was reminded of my love for the form and different aspects of the horse. Then I thought about the bit, halter, and bridle in terms of how we harness and ride this animal. There were a lot of interesting elements to explore.

Being a great horseman does not rely on physical strength but more on the mind and sensibility.

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.'

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

The first two days that I rode a horse, I had someone controlling it with a rope around its neck.

I'm working my horses every day and absolutely loving it. I'm training seven horses but I'm looking to build to 16.

I remember some people after the Olympics that had no idea about horses would ask, 'Do you do that with the horse, or does the horse do it by itself?' I think the fact that you can make it look like you are doing nothing is a real talent. And it is such a massive reward at the end of it.

I started as a working pupil in a yard, mucking out and doing all the duties... and I just never gave up on my dream.

I've always wanted to run my horse farm.

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.

I was riding every single day. I home-schooled because of horses.

I have walked into several pubs, and guys in there have said to me, 'My God, you are the girl off the dancing horse.' They have got no idea about dressage, and they said, 'I can't work out whether you make the horse do that or the horse does it itself - we just couldn't tell - but it brought tears to our eyes.'

Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.

I was probably on a horse before the age of three. From a very young age, I could ride on my own, work, trot, you name it.

I love having horses from a young age and seeing how far they can go.

I actually used to compete at show-jumping when I was a young'un.

When you get on a good horse, you just know. They are powerful, they stop quickly, they can turn in both directions, and they are fast.

A surgeon wouldn't sell his tools. A lawyer doesn't sell his law books. I'm not going to sell my horse. I'm a sportsman.

I'm very comfortable with horses. I love horses and I have grown up around farm-hands. There's something very universal about anyone who's on horseback night and day. When you get off that horse, you are still walking as if there's still a horse between your legs.

I completely fell in love with riding horses. I really didn't want to wear a helmet when I would go off with the trainer on weekends, galloping through forests and stuff. But thank God he made me, because one time, I was going under a tree and my helmet hit a branch. It literally would have taken my head off.