Gene Hackman credited as playing...
Nicholas Earp
- Nicholas Earp: Remember this, all of you. Nothing counts so much as blood. The rest are just strangers.
- Nicholas Earp: [to young Wyatt] You know I'm a man that believes in the law. After your family, it's about the only thing you got to believe in. But there are plenty of men who don't care about the law. Men who'll take part in all kinds of viciousness and don't care who gets hurt. In fact, the more they get hurt, the better. When you find yourself in a fight with such viciousness... hit first if you can. And when you do hit, hit to kill. You'll know. Don't worry. You'll know when it comes to that. The Earps always know.
- Nicholas Earp: Do you think you're the first person to lose someone? That's what life is all about, loss! But we don't use it as an excuse to destroy ourselves. We go on, all of us.
- Nicholas Earp: You take on a job, you finish it. Any man who can't be depended on steady ain't worth the trouble of having around.