Rawhide (TV Series)

The Black Sheep (1961)

Clint Eastwood: Rowdy Yates

Quotes 

• Rowdy Yates : It ain't murder to step on a bug.

• Pete Nolan : Well, there's a sight that'd give an honest man a fit.

  Rowdy Yates : So you see moon-faced range hogs? Smell of them makes me sick to the stomach.

  Pete Nolan : How could any self-respecting human being ever get started in such a business?

  Gil Favor : [sneering]  Takes all kinds.

• Rowdy Yates : We can't go 'round 'em and we can't go behind 'em. What are we supposed to do? Sprout wings and go over 'em?

  Gil Favor : I always knew if you kept talking long enough, you was bound to come up with something smart.

  Rowdy Yates : Huh?

• Rowdy Yates : I wouldn't take a penny off you to close my eyes if I was dead.

• Hey Soos : Rowdy, they don't understand. They didn't spend two weeks on a sheep drive.

  Rowdy Yates : That didn't change me any.

  Hey Soos : That's what I keep telling my family in Mexico. I say I am the same man I was before. You know what they call me?

  Rowdy Yates : Well, I.

  Hey Soos : YANKEE! And they spit when they say it.

• Rowdy Yates : Must be all the sheep in the world down there.

  Tod Stone : A beautiful sight, ain't it.

  Rowdy Yates : It's a nightmare. It'll be 20 years before anything grows in that valley again.

  Tod Stone : What's that matter?

  Rowdy Yates : It matters to the cattle that have to follow on through there.

  Tod Stone : And miserable slab-sided scrubs.

• Pete Nolan : Hey, the Prodigal's back.

  Wishbone : You don't look too bad for two weeks in Purgatory?

  Rowdy Yates : Oh, no, I feel fine. How's Jim's leg?

  Wishbone : It's fine only he won't admit it.

  Pete Nolan : He's been riding along in the supply wagon like the King of Siam, eating bonbons and reading light novels.

• Rowdy Yates : When something ain't none of my business, I let it go in one ear and out the other.

• Tod Stone : Well, neighbour. Like I said, it's been a crazy trip. Crazy beginning, crazy middle.

  Rowdy Yates : And not too bad an ending, all things considered, eh what, sheepman?

  Tod Stone : Right, cowhand.