- Rowdy Yates: How'd you know how to do all that?
- Johnny Calvin: Out of books mainly. See, I read a lot. Pa gets me books sent out from San Antone, New Orleans, sometimes even New York. I like things about doctoring especially.
- Rowdy Yates: Maybe you oughta think about going to school, become a doctor.
- Johnny Calvin: Not me. I'm gonna be exactly like you. A drover. I'm gonna go on a cattle drive the first chance I get.
- Rowdy Yates: Most drovers are half-starved, half-baked, or half-drowned. You take this place here, any one of them would walk halfway across Texas barefoot, just to have what you've got.
- Johnny Calvin: Mr Yates, when I got sick and I found out I was like this, at first I got pretty scared. But then I found out, there isn't anything I can't do. As long as I don't give up. Well, Mr Yates, I haven't given up yet. I'm still gonna be a drover.
- Jim Quince: Aw, doggone it Rowdy, you're worse than a bunch of mule-headed cows in a cactus thicket. Next time, Hey Soos, remind me to choose better company, will ya?
- Hey Soos: Bueno.
- Hey Soos: Sleep does not come easy this night.
- Jim Quince: That's because we haven't heard your usual snoring. You thrash about like a jackass with the colic.
- Rowdy Yates: You mean something by that?
- Jim Quince: Well, I hadn't really thought about it. But there might be a little of resemblance at that.
- Jim Quince: How much is 6 times 7?
- Rowdy Yates: Ah. 42. What are you doing?
- Jim Quince: Never mind what I'm doing.
- Rowdy Yates: Counting your profits already?
- Jim Quince: Can't a man do a little figuring? Look, if we got $35 a head for them...
- Rowdy Yates: Better get them steers there first.
- Jim Quince: That's true.
- Antonio Chavez: Every man is a cripple in some way. But not all men let this rule their life. Let your twisted leg not rule your life, not your master.