Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp was an American lawman and gambler in the American West, including Dodge City, Deadwood, and Tombstone. Earp was involved in the famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral, during which lawmen killed three outlaw Cochise County Cowboys.

Wyatt Earp Quotes

1. “Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.”
— Wyatt Earp

2. “That nothing’s so sacred as honor and nothing’s so loyal as love.”
— Wyatt Earp

3. “No wise man ever took a handgun to a gun fight.”
— Wyatt Earp

4. “Destiny is that which we are drawn towards and Fate is that which we run into.”
— Wyatt Earp

5. “My name is Wyatt Earp! It all ends now!”
— Wyatt Earp

6. “You gonna do somethin’? or are you just gonna stand there and bleed?”
— Wyatt Earp

7. “Fast is fine, but accuracy is final. You must learn to be slow in a hurry.”
— Wyatt Earp

8. “Shooting at a man who is returning the compliment means going into action with the greatest speed of which a man’s muscles are capable, but mentally unflustered by an urge to hurry or the need for complicated nervous and muscular actions which trick shooting involves.”
— Wyatt Earp

9. “The less you bet, the more you lose when you win.”
— Wyatt Earp

10. “The most important lesson I learned…was that the winner of a gunplay usually was the one who took his time. The second was that, if I hoped to live on the frontier, I would shun flashy trick-shooting–grandstand play–as I would poison…In all my life as a frontier peace officer, I did not know a really proficient gunfighter who had anything but contempt for the gun-fanner, or the man who literally shot from the hip.”
— Wyatt Earp