- Tess McGill: [Speaking to her father] And I'll tell you what. If there's a man on this ranch who can keep up with me for one week, then I'll marry him. But if he can't, then we forget about this marriage business once and for all.
- Dr. Sam Beckett: [Declining Tess' hand in marriage, after successfully riding Widowmaker and thus winning the bet] Thanks, but no thanks. I just, uh... I wanted to see if I could ride him, not her.
- Tess McGill: Where you goin', Doc?
- Dr. Sam Beckett: Oh, I just, I thought I might go home and have a hot bath, eat a little supper... have a hot bath...
- Tess McGill: Well, we got business in town. There's a buyer interested in one of our prize bulls, and if you intend to run Riata with me, I think maybe you better come along.
- Dr. Sam Beckett: Without a bath?
- Tess McGill: You got it, cowboy.
- Dr. Sam Beckett: [under his breath] Bonanza was never like this.
- Dr. Sam Beckett: Wayne danced about as well as I did - with Miss Morgan at my kindergarten graduation. She married the principal that summer, and I didn't get over it until I met Miss Sedlack. She was my first-grade teacher.
- [from reading in his diary, Sam has found out that his character is in love with Tess]
- Al: Uh-oh.
- Dr. Sam Beckett: Uh-oh what?
- Al: Well, uh, there's a 97% probability that someone who's been sending her love letters will marry Tess.
- Dr. Sam Beckett: Well, uh, then I'm okay, because this is a diary. It's not love letters.
- Al: Don't fight it, Sam. You're here to marry this cowboy. Uh, boy-girl. Cowgirl. Girl.