Clint Eastwood: Rowdy Yates

Quotes 

• Rowdy Yates : On a trail drive, each and every man has his chore. The eye of the drive is the scout, riding out in front to test the trail and find water and bed ground. Others are stationed around the herd, hazing it when it moves and soothing it when it's bedded down. A very important man is the master of the chuck wagon, because he's not only got to be a good trail cook, but a jack of all trades as well. The man who holds the whole kit and kaboodle together is the trail boss. There's one man in the outfit whoses got no chores of his own, gotta be ready and willin' to take over anyone else's. Yeah, that's me - ramrod of this outfit, Rowdy Yates.

• Rowdy Yates : Ma'am, that stage with the mail was due yesterday.

  Lena Biggs : Don't you get your hopes all raised up, Sonny. Just tell yourself it's due in some time this month and you won't be disappointed.

  Rowdy Yates : We don't make more than two mail stops on a trail drive. Letters are all a man has to remind him there's more than steers and drovers in this world.

  Lena Biggs : I been running this office since my man died five years ago, and I ain't yet got to see that stage in on time.

  Rowdy Yates : Boss said to wait so I'll wait. Hey, let me tote that thing for you, Ma'am. You'll go straining yourself.

  Lena Biggs : [She stands there holding the barrel]  You wouldn't want to Indian wrestle, would you, Boy?

  Rowdy Yates : Oh, no. No. Thanks for asking.

  Lena Biggs : Why don't you go get yourself some breakfast, Sonny. You make me nervous loafing around looking like a hang-dog.

  [She wanders off carrying the barrel. Rowdy attempts to lift another barrel but can barely move it. He rubs his stomach deciding that breakfast is the better alternative] 

• Rowdy Yates : I can't gamble any better than I can drink. Or tell a story.

• Ella Cowley : I'd hate to see you get in any deeper. I think we ought to settle up now.

  Rowdy Yates : Settle up?

  Ella Cowley : I already carried you over $300. That's not counting the stake I gave you to begin with.

  Rowdy Yates : $300? Phew. Look, when I get to Sedalia, I got a salary plus a bonus. I could send you...

  Ella Cowley : I'm not in the business of staking trail trash.

  Rowdy Yates : Trail trash? I guess you don't mean it, being a lady and all.

• Rowdy Yates : Who was that?

  Goyo : Just the witch woman. She would not find the holiday complete without taking the hot blood of a rooster.

  Rowdy Yates : There's gonna be all kinds of fun around here tomorrow.

• Albert Hadley : Can I get you a drink?

  Rowdy Yates : Ah, no. I, ah, had one this morning and it cost me $300.