Robert Ryan credited as playing...
Sabbath Cotton Ryan
- Bannock Marshal Jared Maddox: I remember you at Fort Bliss.
- Sabbath Marshal Cotton Ryan: That's my trouble. Everybody remembers me at Fort Bliss.
- Crowe Wheelwright: Ryan thinks you're pretty good. He says you could kill me anytime you wanted to. I see it different. I think I'm faster.
- Sabbath Marshal Cotton Ryan: Are you asking me who's faster or whether I could kill you when I chose to? Because if it's the second, the answer is yes.
- Crowe Wheelwright: You're pretty damn sure.
- Sabbath Marshal Cotton Ryan: I'm pretty damn sure. You think it's a game, don't you? A contest between gentlemen. You ever kill a man, Crowe? You're a cowman. You carry a gun for protection... snakes. You learn to use it sometimes fairly well; sometimes you become really good - but you're still a cowman.
- Vincent Bronson, Town Boss: I don't like men sweatin' fear in my house!
- Sabbath Marshal Cotton Ryan: [taking offense] You pay me, Mr. Bronson, and I eat your dirt, but that don't make what you say right!
- Sabbath Marshal Cotton Ryan: Choctaw is a gunhand. Bronson likes his work. Decker is a shadow walker. He walks big when he's with Choctaw, but a back-shooter inside.
- Sabbath Marshal Cotton Ryan: It's a great life. If you were some cheap gunsel with a big name running out in front of you, they'd all be buying you drinks... rubbing up against you... fixing up what they're going to tell their kids and the ones who weren't there. But if you're a lawman, you're a disease. They need you, but they hate you.
- Bannock Marshal Jared Maddox: It comes with the job.
- Harvey Stenbaugh: Marc was a good man with a gun.
- Sabbath Marshal Cotton Ryan: He was a big mouth who thought he was a good man with a gun. There's a cold hole in the ground between the two.
- Sabbath Marshal Cotton Ryan: Some men just go to things in a straight line, Mr. Bronson. They don't bend and they don't trade.
- Vincent Bronson, Town Boss: Are you telling me Maddox is like that?
- Sabbath Marshal Cotton Ryan: He's got the mark.
- Harvey Stenbaugh: That's too bad. Then he's going to buy himself a lot of pain.
- Sabbath Marshal Cotton Ryan: In every town Maddox has worked, the ground is full of men who were faster.
- Crowe Wheelwright: Yeah, well, I really am. And I aim to prove it, too.
- Sabbath Marshal Cotton Ryan: It makes a great epitaph. You may be faster, Crowe. You may be better with a gun, but Maddox will kill you... and that's a fact. You'll be staring up at nothing before your gun ever got clear. I know what I'm talking about, Crowe. You may not rate me very high, but I know men like Maddox.
- Sabbath Marshal Cotton Ryan: I'll tell you, Lucas, if I had somewhere to run, I'd run. But I don't, so I'll stand.