Alonzo Harris The shit's chess, it ain't checkers!
Most-quoted character in Training Day (2001): in 27 of its 44 quotes
Most scenes with: Jake Hoyt (3)
To protect the sheep you gotta catch the wolf, and it takes a wolf to catch a wolf.
More lines from Alonzo Harris
22 quotes Alonzo Harris Alonzo Harris King Kong ain't got shit on me!
Alonzo Harris What a day what a mother**** Day...
Alonzo Harris Man Up ****, Man the **** up!
Alonzo Harris You got mad squabbles boy! I saw you put on that choke hold.
Alonzo Harris Its not what you know, its what you can prove.
Alonzo Harris You wanna go to jail or you wanna go home?
Alonzo Harris [singing]
Oh where, oh where has my little Jake gone? Oh where, oh where can he be?
Alonzo Harris **** him and everybody who looks like him.
Alonzo Harris Yeah, yeah... if you need shit done you gotta do it yourself ~(shoots druglord)~
Alonzo Harris [limping]
You motha****er!! You shot me in the ass!!
Alonzo Harris You know I'm surgical with this bitch Jake!
Alonzo Harris My ****
Alonzo Harris [after shooting Roger in the chest]
Breathe. Breathe, there you go. Just let it go. Breathe, dawg.
Alonzo Harris It's not what you know; it's what you can prove.
Alonzo Harris I'm sorry I exposed you to it, but it is. It's ugly, but it's necessary.
Alonzo Harris You're terrified. Everybody goes through that the first time. I did. I went through it. The sooner you can match what's in your head with what's in the real world, the better you're gonna feel. In this business, you gotta have a little dirt on you for anybody to trust you. When all this is behind you, there's gonna be a whole other world that opens up for you. I walk a higher path, son. I can give you the keys to all the doors.
Alonzo Harris My guys are pretty good, but they're not leaders, they're clowns. You're a leader. You want my job? You got it. You want to lock up poisoners? This is the best place to do it. But you gotta just take your time. You'll make detective, play the game, you'll grow wise. And then you can change things. But you got to change them from the inside, son.
Alonzo Harris Congratulations son, you made it. You passed the test you're a narc. You're in. Please put the gun down before you give my girl a heart attack. Put the gun down.
Alonzo Harris You got one problem, though, Jake. You got no witnesses. Who are your **** witnesses? Huh? Roger? Smiley? You think my troops are gonna help you? It's not what you know it's what you can prove. What can you prove? Huh? Nothing. Where's your evidence?
Alonzo Harris [using his own son as a human shield during his gunfight with Jake]
You see what I see, Jake? Officer Hoyt, job number one. Preserve life. There's my son. Don't hurt him. We walking out together.
Alonzo Harris You ain't never killed nobody before, have you? It ain't like stepping on ants, Jake. It takes a man to kill. Are you man enough to kill, Jake?
Scenes with Alonzo Harris
4 scenes
Look man, I got a wife.
Alonzo Harris You got a dick. You do have a dick, don't you? OK, the dick lines up straight like that right? To the right of it and to the left of it are pockets, right? In those pockets are money. Look in either one of 'em - pay the bill.
Alonzo Harris [Alonzo forces Hoyt to smoke the weed.]
Left that out your service jacket. Yeah, I know you got secrets. Everybody got secrets. Didn't know you liked to get wet, dog.
What's "wet"?
Alonzo Harris Butt-naked. Ill. Sherms. Dust. PCP. Primos. P-Dog. That's what you had. That's what you were smoking, you couldn't taste it?
No, I've never done it.
Alonzo Harris You have now. I haven't, but you have.
Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Man, I'm gonna get piss-tested, and then I'm gonna get fired!
Alonzo Harris Lieutenant's got our back. We know a week before we piss.
Oh, shit. Shit!
Alonzo Harris Boom!
Why did you do this to me?
Alonzo Harris Nobody told you to smoke that thing. You made the decision. Live with your decision. Ain't like I put a gun to your head.
Alonzo [Jake leave with Alonzo's pay-off for the Russian Mob.]
Aww, you mother****ers. Okay. Alright. I'm putting cases on all you bitches! Huh. You think you can do this shit...Jake! You think you can do this to me?! You mother****ers will be playing basketball in Pelican Bay when I get finished with you! SHU program, ****. 23 hour lockdown! I'm the man up in this piece! You'll never see the light of.....who the **** do you think you're **** with? I'm the police, I run shit around here. You just live here! Yeah, that's right, you better walk away! Go on and walk away...'cause I'm gonna' burn this mother****er down. King Kong ain't got shit on me! That's right, that's right. Shit, I don't, ****. I'm winning anyway, I'm winning... I'm winning any mother**** way. I can't lose. Yeah, you can shoot me, but you can't kill me.
This car is NOT from the motor pool.
Alonzo Harris No it's not. Sexy though, isn't it?
