- Sgt. Pike: When an Apache jumps ya, nobody sees him. It don't take no heavy thinking, it takes an educated guess.
- Pvt. Hawkins: My nerves are getting me, Mr Favor. Next thing you know, I'll be stomping my own shadow.
- Gil Favor: Well, as long as it ain't mine, Hawkins. You see anything?
- Pvt. Hawkins: No, it's quiet as Martin County church yard.
- Lalota: How long? How long, yellow leg? How long do you think you can watch me? In the night? Del Latigo is here, so is death. Very soon you will meet both.
- Maj. Blaine: [a dead Army officer is buried in the desert wilderness] 8 years of training, 9 years of beans and hay, sunfried hell, that's all it adds up to, a pile of rocks and a couple of sticks.