Quotes About Gunfighters

Cowboys of the Old West were workers, not gunslingers, and they did not go looking for trouble. But when trouble found them, the rules were unequivocal. If someone was killed in a fair fight, that was not murder, it was an incident. On the other hand, shooting an unarmed or fleeing man ~ even if he was a sworn enemy ~ was strictly forbidden, and transgressors were quickly brought to frontier justice.

The ABA was like basketball's Wild West, and Julius Erving, George Gervin, James Silas and all the other ABA stars were the gunfighters. They are men of legend known to millions, but whose actual deeds were seen by few.