Jazira: Take care... Blue Child.
Frank T. Hopkins: I'd take a warm gin over ice any day, General.
Frank T. Hopkins: For a man of such high rank you're kind of short, Aziz.
Aziz: Have you never seen a slave market, Mr. Frank?
Annie Oakley: We're betting on the last American cowboy.
Buffalo Bill Cody: Hidalgo is a legend. He's never lost a long distance race.
Jaffa: If any harm has befallen the child, I shall remove your head myself.
Sheik Riyadh: Never before has a foreigner partaken in the Great Race.
Sheik Riyadh: Tell me about this Wyatt Earp... and Doctor Holliday.
Frank T. Hopkins: Get out of here mister. Leave me be.
Yusef: This is not possible...I was charged with the crime of stealing milk. As punishment I have been assigned to the American and his horse.
Frank T. Hopkins: You're working for me?
Yusef: It was this or be removed of my left hand. The future will tell if I have chosen poorly.
Frank T. Hopkins: Mister... you can say anything you want about me. I'm gonna have to ask you not to talk about my horse that way.
Frank T. Hopkins: I'm not a gambling man.
Sheik Riyadh: Quite the contrary. You are gambling with your very life.
Prince Bin Al Reeh: You will not defeat me. I am born of a great tribe, People of the Horse.
Frank T. Hopkins: So am I.
Frank T. Hopkins: Western justice, partner.
Sheik Riyadh: And you, an unbeliever in the tent of a man who can trace his very blood back to Adam, you will be removed of your infidel self.
Frank T. Hopkins: Removed of my what?
Sheik Riyadh: Like a stallion not worthy of breeding.
Sheik Riyadh: How is the coffee? If you were to put a horseshoe in it, do you suppose it would stand erect?
Katib: At your age uncle, I suppose it is that only thing that might.
Sheik Riyadh: Boldly spoken... for a man with no wives.
Aziz: What shall I tell his Excellency?
Frank T. Hopkins: You can tell him pound sand for all I care.
Frank T. Hopkins: Nobody hurts my horse.
Answer: They take the camel roads, which are easier (and faster) to navigate.
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