The most important lesson I learned...was that the winner of a gunplay usually was the one who took his time. The second was that, if I hoped to live on the frontier, I would shun flashy trick-shooting--grandstand play--as I would poison...In all my life as a frontier peace officer, I did not know a really proficient gunfighter who had anything but contempt for the gun-fanner, or the man who literally shot from the hip.

You gonna do somethin'? or are you just gonna stand there and bleed?

No wise man ever took a handgun to a gun fight.

My name is Wyatt Earp! It all ends now!

Shooting at a man who is returning the compliment means going into action with the greatest speed of which a man's muscles are capable, but mentally unflustered by an urge to hurry or the need for complicated nervous and muscular actions which trick shooting involves.

That nothing's so sacred as honor and nothing's so loyal as love.

Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. In a gun fight... You need to take your time in a hurry.