The Rookie Quotes

Bishop: This job is all about doing things that run counter to human nature. If you can’t overcome your programming you won’t make it.

Officer Rigley: I like to go home to eat. Get these wool pants off, air things out.

Bradford: He’s what we call a slug, just doing his time. Allergic to real police work.

Chen: I feel like Goldilocks. This training officer’s too hard, this one’s too soft.

Captain: It is not your job to punish that man for what he did, do you understand? Overcoming that impulse could be the hardest thing you…

Officer Chen: You’re a novelty item right now but in 13 months you’ll be a P2 and the cops will treat you like one of the guys but I’ll…

Officer Nolan: You were right. I did come here looking for reinvention. I didn’t understand what it meant to be a cop. It takes…

Sergeant Grey: I will haze, harass, and humiliate you every chance I get in the hope that you will abandon this misguided quest. Officer…

Officer Bishop: [to Officer Chen] I know about you and Nolan. You were right to keep it secret but you’re wrong to keep it going. It will…

Sergeant Grey: Today. See every day we start fresh because we can’t affect the past but we damn sure can make a difference today.