Memorable quotes for
Once Upon a Texas Train (1988) (TV)

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Cotton: If you're trying to get on my good side, forget it. I haven't got one.

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Jason Fitch: Lead's gonna fly. I can feel it in my bones. If I should catch one, boys, promise me you'll bury me where I fall.

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[first lines]
Captain Owen Hayes: Put the gun down John Henry.

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[last lines]
John Henry Lee: Look, a Texas train.

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The Govenor: Aren't you a little old to go running around chasing an outlaw?
Captain Owen Hayes: Well, ain't he a little old to go running around robbing banks?

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John Henry Lee: A man who don't know the ropes is liable to get one around his neck.

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John Henry Lee: Outlawin’ ain't what it used to be.
Captain Owen Hayes: It never was, John Henry.

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John Henry Lee: Fire at will.
Charlie Lee: Who?

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Warden: I guess I'll never get used to it. they're brought in here ramrod straight, arrogant, ready to tackle the world. And they walk away broken down old men. Nowhere to go, nothing to do, and too wore out to do it if even if there was.

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John Henry Lee: You see, I don't have a good side either.

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John Henry Lee: You'll have the spent the rest of your lives knowing you killed 5 men.
Cotton: 5 old men. Makes a difference.

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Captain Owen Hayes: You made a mistake.
Captain Owen Hayes: I sure did, 20 years ago. I should have shot him.

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Jason Fitch: Wagon headed south, four outriders, three empty horses.
Nash Crawford: Hey Jason, I take back everything I ever said against you. You're as good a tracker as you ever were, being able to hear all that just by putting your ear to the ground.
Jason Fitch: I didn't hear anything, they just ran over me.

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Cotton: You wanna have a shootout?
John Henry Lee: That's right.
Cotton: Sounds kind of old fashioned.

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Cotton: Claire? No, that goes with a redhead. Bertha? No, that goes with a cow. Kitty. Gotta be that.

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Bates Boley: For two cents I'd throw the keys in the water bucket and ride out of here.
Cotton: On what?

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Cotton: Look old man, I set out to spend that gold, and that's what I full intend to do.
John Henry Lee: What a man intends and what he does is sometimes different.

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Jason Fitch: There's a town up ahead!
Nash Crawford: That town up ahead has been there for the last half hour.
Jason Fitch: It has?
Nash Crawford: Jason Fitch, you are the worst tracker I ever did see.

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John Henry Lee: I spent 20 years up there in that prison planning day and night, living on vengeance, hate, and pride, and it's all come down to one rusty spike.

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