- Deputy Rico Amonte: Sir, I am just trying to make small talk.
- Senior Deputy John Henry Barnes: I don't do small talk!
- Deputy Rico Amonte: [dissapointed] So I'm not gonna tell you how much I miss Brooklyn, huh? Especially the Summers...
- Senior Deputy John Henry Barnes: I don't want to hear your birthday, I don't want to hear your favorite ice cream, I don't want to hear how your dog Skippy died, and I certainly don't want to hear about your bedroom life!
- Deputy Rico Amonte: How did you know my dogs name was Skippy?
- Senior Deputy John Henry Barnes: Are you pulling roots?
- Deputy Rico Amonte: Sir, I do not pull roots, especially when it comes to Skippy. Yellow lab, we had him for fifteen years...
- Senior Deputy John Henry Barnes: How do you say shut up in Italian?
- Deputy Rico Amonte: [confused] What?
- Senior Deputy John Henry Barnes: How do you say shut up in Italian?
- Deputy Rico Amonte: Stait zit.
- Senior Deputy John Henry Barnes: Stait zit.
- Deputy Rico Amonte: Italian is a beautiful language, you know sir?
- Senior Deputy John Henry Barnes: Stait zit!
- Deputy Rico Amonte: Hey, that is pretty good. You know, most people don't...
- Senior Deputy John Henry Barnes: I mean stait zit!
- Deputy Rico Amonte: I'm so sorry about your wife and the baby. Losing my mom was bad, but after what you've been through, forget it!
- Deputy Jackson: Layne... bad, bad girl.
- Deputy Rico Amonte: Sir, it wasn't her fault. I was telling her how frustrated I was at not getting anywhere with you. I dragged it out of her. She was looking out for you.
- Deputy Jackson: Abra-cadabra-gail. Long for Abigail, that was what we called her. So now you can tell that to Layne also.
- Deputy Rico Amonte: This is between you and me.
- Senior Deputy John Henry Barnes: Do you pray?
- Deputy Rico Amonte: [confused] What?
- Senior Deputy John Henry Barnes: Do you pray?
- Deputy Rico Amonte: At Easter, sometimes at Christmas if I want something extra.
- Senior Deputy John Henry Barnes: You better pray hard tonight that you never see me again.
- Deputy Rico Amonte: I'm not saying I didn't get along with my dad. We got along... like a New York cabbie and the English Language.
- Deputy Rico Amonte: I remember when I saved up everything I earned to buy my mom a lilac bush when she was sick. I just knew that she'd get better if she had her favorite flower beside her. I went to the nursery, I bought the plant, she died that afternoon. Some matters are just out of our hands.
- Man in jail: I'm sad!
- [crying]
- Deputy Rico Amonte: Well, why are you sad?
- Man in jail: Larry!
- Deputy Rico Amonte: Larry?
- Man in jail: The guy you found in my truck. How is he?
- Deputy Rico Amonte: Well, you know he's dead, so there's that.
- Man in jail: I know, but they'll bury him proper, won't they?
- Deputy Rico Amonte: Of course they will.
- Man in jail: Good. He was like my family.
- Deputy Rico Amonte: You didn't kill him, did you?
- Man in jail: No. He just up and died. He had a weak heart. I was his only friend. Bikers are people too, you know.
- Deputy Rico Amonte: Of course.
- Deputy Rico Amonte: Astrid? What are you doing here?
- Astrid Fonseca: Rico, I'm pregnant.
- Deputy Rico Amonte: [stunned] But it can't be! I've lived in four condoms since the last time we had sex!
- Deputy Rico Amonte: It's not yours. It's my husband's.
- Darla Handy: So you're a Hispanic?
- Deputy Rico Amonte: No, Italian.
- Darla Handy: I love the taste of Italian food!
- Deputy Rico Amonte: [describing a murderer] I remember the guy's appearance. Five foot, ten, black stringy hair, eyes to turn Medusa to stone.
- Deputy Rico Amonte: You know sir, when I was a kid the only time I listened to my father was when he wasn't yelling.
- McDowell: I never would have pulled the trigger if that's what you're after.
- Senior Deputy John Henry Barnes: I know you wouldn't, I could see it in your eyes. One thing you should know, though, when you go to such lengths to make a statement is never contradict that statement before you've made it.
- McDowell: What do you mean?
- Senior Deputy John Henry Barnes: Calling names can do serious damage to people, just as it did to your grandchild.
- McDowell: I know.
- Senior Deputy John Henry Barnes: And you went in there to teach those kids a lesson they'd never forget. Then when a janitor shows up you mock him, his station in life, and call him a name.