- Bret Maverick: Well, as my old pappy used to say, "If... if you haven't got something nice to say about a man, it's time you change the subject."
- Bret Maverick: You know, I've got myself a real problem. Now, how do you turn a crook over to the sheriff, when the sheriff's a crook?
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- Bret Maverick: [narrating] Hollow Rock, Wyoming wasn't a town you'd ordinarily go a long way to visit. But a lot of people overlooked this every July 4th. Because on that holiday, Hollow Rock put on the best Quarter Horse race in the country.
- Bret Maverick: As my old pappy used to tell me, he said, "Never play in a rigged game unless you rig it yourself."
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- Bret Maverick: Don't ask me why I did it, I had a very good reason at the time. Just didn't work out.
- Col. Arnold Taylor: I would ask you why, but I might not like the answer. So I'll ask a favor instead.
- Bret Maverick: Anything at all, colonel.
- Col. Arnold Taylor: Next time you visit Hollow Rock, don't make it on the Forth of July.