- Clay McCord: I still can't see McCullough gettin' mixed up in a thing like this.
- Marshal Simon Fry: You never know what an honest citizen will do when he gets the short end of a business deal, gets hurt, feels injured and then some weasel like Frazier comes along and shows him how to get even. Sometimes even an honest citizen will buy.
- Harris: You know, Clay, I've seen men pinwheel a gun in my time and I've seen some fancy use of the border shift, too, but I ain't ever seen anybody use both tricks on the same draw.
- Clay McCord: He's a gunfighter if ever I've seen one.
- Tom McCullough: I'm not gonna get mixed up in a murder!
- Andy Willis: You're so mixed up in murder now, McCullough, if you listen real hard you can hear the noose danglin' near your neck.