- Crazy Man: Injuns hit the fort.
- Johnny Yuma: When?
- Crazy Man: Oh, a hundred years ago, a thousand - maybe it was only last week. Anyways it was a lot of dead men ago.
- Johnny Yuma: Commanches?
- Crazy Man: Kiowas, boy, Kiowas! They'd chew up Commanches for breakfast.
- [trying to explain his cowardice]
- Crazy Man: I might have been dead if I'd fought. What good would that do me?
- Johnny Yuma: Your bullet might have killed Santanta.
- Satanta: You will die. Do you know the reason?
- Johnny Yuma: I reckon 'cause you say so.
- Satanta: A man should know why he dies. That helps to die well.
- Johnny Yuma: If you gotta die, you might as well be good at it.
- Satanta: We will see, Yellow Hair, if the Kiowa will be proud of your scalp.
- [Santanta's Kiowas have captured the army fort]
- Satanta: This is our land. You will learn that as the other milk faces have.
- Johnny Yuma: Looks like you taught 'em pretty good, Santanta.
- [examining Johnny's Confederate cap]
- Satanta: You, Yellow Hair, you have fought the Long Knives, too, like the Kiowa.
- Johnny Yuma: Not exactly.
- [throws Johnny's cap into the dirt]
- Satanta: You were beaten.
- Johnny Yuma: They licked us.
- Satanta: Your chances of winning were not good.
- Johnny Yuma: They were better than yours.
- Satanta: One does not fight always to win. Sometimes the fight is to hurt back.
- [the Kiowas honor Johnny's challenge to Iron Hand whom he called a stinking pig]
- Iron Hand: We will see who is the pig and who will be skinned. We will run for the knife.
- [last lines]
- [handing Johnny his pocket watch]
- Crazy Man: It's got my name on it. Maybe you can give it to my kin. Tell 'em you found it on a dead soldier at Fort Concho.
- Johnny Yuma: Yeah.