Maverick (TV Series)

The Wrecker (1957)

James Garner: Bret Maverick

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Quotes 

• Bart Maverick : Well, as Pappy used to say...

  Bret Maverick : Faint heart never filled a flush.

  Bart Maverick : That's right. Go ahead.

  Bret Maverick : I'm gonna have to leave my head with a loan shark to get the money.

  Bart Maverick : You'd rather be rich than ugly, wouldn't ya? Bid.

• [the Maverick Brothers consider whether to bid on the salvage rights on a shipwreck] 

  Bret Maverick : What do you think, Bart?

  Bart Maverick : Fifty-five hundred dollars is still a lot of money for rice and silk. Even if you're a hungry dressmaker.

• Bret Maverick : Well, we can't pick and choose, brother Bart. We have to take what the devil sends us.

• Bret Maverick : Well, I thought I needed you to help me swing the deal, but I did it myself with a pair of aces and a fair knowledge of the grand game of poker.

• Bret Maverick : know, Bart... look, we've been broke before, but not dead. Why don't we just forget the whole thing?

• Bret Maverick : Poker's a matter of nerve and... nerve is a matter of how much a man's got.