Clint Eastwood: Rowdy Yates

Quotes 

• Rowdy Yates : All right, spit it, what's bothering you?

  Wishbone : You know mighty well what's bothering me. You got us into a shooting war with the Army, that's what.

  Rowdy Yates : As far as I'm concerned I didn't start it.

  Wishbone : Other than the fact that you shot a lieutenant.

  Rowdy Yates : Look, I nicked a young punk who was trying to run off with a hundred of my steers.

  Wishbone : Well, whether he's a punk or not, he's still a lieutenant in the US Army, and if you shoot the lieutenant, you shoot the Army. You shoot the Army and the Army shoots back.

  Rowdy Yates : What'd you want me to do? Let him run off with the whole herd? Or maybe better yet, shoot me?

• Rowdy Yates : What are we doing? Running from something?

  Jed Colby : But, no, ah, maybe we ought be.

• Major Taggert : We have no gold,

  Rowdy Yates : No gold?

  Major Taggert : No. Even buttons seem to be in short supply.

• Rowdy Yates : I'll have the gold or the cattle back or Captain Masters dead on the ground. You can bet on that!

• Jed Colby : I had a cousin named Jackson once from Texas. He was about as snarl-bit as you.

  Rowdy Yates : Yeah, what happened to him?

  Jed Colby : Well, he was out in the fields one day and bent over, someone came along and threw a brand on him. Last I heard of him, they took him off with a load of beef to Kansas City.

  Jackson : Why you.