- Joel Collins: I've never seen anybody take to anything the way you have a gun. A man would think you've been shooting all your life.
- Sam Bass: It's just like anything else. Decide where you want to go, then get there the best way you can.
- [Sam Bass and friends have just held up a stagecoach and removed only part of the money from the strong box]
- Joel Collins: Well, we could've had our ranch out of that box.
- Sam Bass: No, we couldn't, Joel. The way we did it, even if this thing comes out, people will know that we took back only what he stole from us. They'll be on our side.
- Dakota: Sure, we wouldn't want 'em to think we robbed this stage dishonestly.