Frank Rourke/Quote

The following is a list of quotes spoken by or referring to Frank Rourke.

## *Training Day (TV series)*

### *Apocalypse Now*

*"L.A.'s always been a hunting ground. They built these streets over old game trails. Indians stalked deer down La Cienega Boulevard. Rangers tracked horse thieves into Beverly Hills. I've been hunting armed men through this city since O.J. was doing Hertz commercials, and I can tell you, one thing never changes, not in 11,000 years -- nobody sees it coming."*
—Frank Rourke
*"All right, this isn't training day. It's more of a trial by fire. I'm the Kobayashi Maru, Kyle. I'm the test nobody passes. My last two trainees didn't make it through a single shift. They both quit."*
—Frank Rourke to Kyle Craig
### *Tehrangeles*

*"L.A.'s a city on the run from its own history. Guy buys a $5 million mansion, first thing he does is knock it down. Angelenos won't even keep the faces they were born with. They swap them the way people lease cars. L.A.'s like that. Sometimes when the city smiles at you, you can see something much older... uglier lying beneath."*
—Frank Rourke
### *Trigger Time*

*"You tell your kids there's no such thing as the bogeyman. Tell them not to be scared of the thing under the bed. Bet you never even bother to check. You should. Because there are monsters out there, red in tooth and claw."*
—Frank Rourke
*"You have to become the thing that scares them, Kyle. Yeah. I'm a monster when I have to be. I'll tell you what I'm not. I'm not that guy at the funeral telling some poor kid's parents we're doing everything we can and watching their faces fall 'cause they know. That's one lie I never have to tell. I'm the guy who gets to tell Garza's widow we got the bastards. That's who I am. Think you can live with that?"*
—Frank Rourke to Kyle Craig
### *Code of Honor*

*"Most folks outside of Texas don't give a rat's ass about the Alamo. No one cares about 180 Texans who defended a mud brick garrison against 5,000. Even though they knew it meant their death, not a single man fled. That's honor. Here in L.A., honor's just a name they give girl babies in Westwood."*
—Frank Rourke
### *Wages of Sin*

*"Old sergeant of mine once told me there are two things you can't take back on the job -- bullets that leave your gun and words that leave your mouth. I've spent more than my share of both and I'm here to tell you, it's the words you live to regret. I've run my mouth, burned bridges, blew up a couple of marriages that might have still had some tread on them. But I never shot a man who didn't have it coming."*
—Frank Rourke
### *Faultlines*

*"Tommy doesn't look like a cop. Looks like he should be on the cover of TigerBeat. He's the last guy I'd expect to see in a unit like this, but the first guy you want in a gunfight. He was a pro surfer until a Great White nearly tore him in half. The attack changed him like a bite from a vampire -- gave Tommy a taste for death. He still surfs every morning. The sharks don't worry him at all. But there's another demon out there that attacks without warning -- your past."*
—Frank Rourke
*"Point is, what a man is willing to do is not set in stone, Kyle. It fluctuates, evolves. Do this job long enough, you'll understand."*
—Frank Rourke to Kyle Craig
### *Quid Pro Quo*

*"When I was a kid back in Texas, carnival came through town. I hit the midway with my buddies and blew all my money trying to knock down one of those milk bottle pyramids with a softball. Wanted that chalk statue of King Kong real bad. Came home empty handed. My old man told me the game was rigged, that the bottles at the bottom were filled with buckshot to weigh them down. So that night, I went back to that cheating bastard's booth, and I burned it to the ground. See, I don't like to lose."*
—Frank Rourke
*"I don't question Frank. Frank hunts the things that hunt the innocent. If he played by the rules, I probably would've died somebody's plaything, my organs sold off on the black market. So if it's a choice between rules and results, guess what."*
—Rebecca Lee
*"It's not what you know, Gary. It's what you can prove, remember?"*
—Frank Rourke to Gary Millstone
### *Blurred Lines*

*"Pecos, Texas, back in the '70s -- me and the fellas would meet up after school and play cops and robbers. They would all fight to play the police officers. No one wanted to be a criminal except me. I loved it, because in my family, being a crook was a point of pride. As far as my daddy was concerned, breaking the law was a badge of honor."*
—Frank Rourke
*"Trainee, if you learn anything riding next to me, let it be this -- never question if I'll take down a target in my sights. I kill because it's my nature to."*
—Frank Rourke to Kyle Craig
### *Bad Day at Aqua Mesa*

*"South Central Los Angeles. You hear those words, and already, there's a story coming together in your head. Like when people talk about the Old West. You see two gunfighters on a Dusty Street, but no one thinks about how those fellas got there, why they're about to pull the trigger, who else might catch one when the bullets fly. Only way to know the real story is to put yourself in their boots."*
—Frank Rourke
### *Sunset*

*"Hollywood's had more than its fair share of tawdry murders. The Black Dahlia, the Juice, Biggie Smalls. I figured you ought to hear about this one from me before the tabloids and TMZ get ahold of it. But if you're hoping for a happy ending, try the movies. That's why I never worked homicide, because you already know how the story ends, and even when you solve the case, poor bastard's still dead."*
—Frank Rourke

### *Elegy*

*"You're gonna want to judge me. When the media gets ahold of this, when the worst scandal in the history of the department breaks, when they're handing down the indictments... you're gonna hear my name over and over. Accusations of brutality. Corruption. Murder. And you're gonna want to judge me. But, hey, you've come this far. All I'm asking is... wait till you hear the rest of it. I think you owe me that much."*
—Frank Rourke
### *Elegy: Part 2*

*"Frank comes from a long line of outlaws. It's in his blood. And for the last 30 years, he's been chasing criminals, learning how the think. Frank's better at this than you are. Promise me you won't try and take him alone. He's dangerous, Kyle."*
—Joy Lockhart
*"You kill a monster in cold blood, he doesn't really die, Kyle. He becomes part of you. And this world sure as hell doesn't need anymore monsters. It doesn't need any more Tim Wallaces or Alonzo Harrises. Or Frank Rourkes."*
—Frank Rourke to Kyle Craig