- Johnny Yuma: [Johnny quotes from David's book, Collected Biographies of Famous Men, words written by Thomas Mordaunt but usually attributed to Walter Scott and his novel, Old Mortality] One moment filled with glory is worth an age without a name.
- Simon Wilson: According to my sister, he was handsome, curly-haired, smiling, a war hero who stood seven feet tall.
- Johnny Yuma: Seven feet?
- Simon Wilson: Her knight in shining armour! That's what she liked to call him. Like in the books she was always reading, always reading.
- Simon Wilson: The way hope would leap into her eyes every time the sage would come by with the mail, and the way it would die when there was none for her. He's gonna die for that, for that rotten hope, and the little bit he killed her every time he stayed away from her.
- Simon Wilson: [Simon and Johnny talk over the headstone: Johnny Yuma Born 10 July 1847, Died] SHE wanted him. She's going to have him, cos I'm gonna find him, and kill him, and bury him.
- David Sprague: I don't want to be myself. I want to be somebody.
- Johnny Yuma: Like Bill Cody?
- David Sprague: Yeah, yeah, I was him too. I was even called Younger.
- Johnny Yuma: Bill Cody, Jesse James, and Cole Younger. Those, those I can understand. Why Johnny Yuma?
- Johnny Yuma: I'm not the man you're looking for, Simon.
- Simon Wilson: You're Johnny Yuma.
- Johnny Yuma: Yeah. And I try my hand at writing and I've got the scar and I served with the Third Texas Cavalry. But I never met your sister.
- Mason: You, ah, want to cut ten, twelve miles off that? There's a shortcut.
- Simon Wilson: Where?
- Mason: Through Big Rock Canyon. There's a fork in the road about seven miles out of town. A stand of cottonwoods. You take the left fork through the canyon.
- Mr. Dover: Tight eyes, close together. That's the way you tell a killer, you know them tight eyes. Always got 'em.
- Johnny Yuma: I'll remember that.
- Mr. Dover: That's why he didn't surprise me when he said his name was Jesse James.
- Johnny Yuma: Jesse James!