Final Thoughts

‘We choose to live a competitive life. We choose to enjoy the thrill of victory, but suffer from the agony of defeat. We choose to be observed, judged, and evaluated on our riding abilities. And in my point of view, that means a lot about a person who chooses this as their way of life. So we’ve made this big decision, to walk into the show pen, and that's something that nobody forced us to do.’

—Gil Friedman, owner of Mental Athletics, on The Ride, a podcast by Horse&Rider,

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