John Diggle quotes from Arrow

Diggle

I don't know where the next Olympics are at, but you might want to think about signing yourself up.

Diggle

Maybe you can give the list a rest and just enjoy the holidays with your family. Besides, I hear St. Nick has a list of his own. I wager you're in the "nice" column. Go home, Oliver.

Diggle

Last time I saw a spade that lethal, it cut up a pretty good royal flush I was holding.

Diggle

If there is even the possibility of this kind of danger to my city, I’m reporting for duty.

Diggle

I know you want payback for what happened to Felicity, and you should, but don't lose who made her fall in love with her in the first place.

Diggle

You've been in denial, Oliver. Holding onto hope with both hands that you don't have to give into that hate. Use that hate to do what needs to be done. But Oliver, this needs to be done. You have to kill Malcolm Merlyn.

Diggle

Fear is part of war, the part that keeps us alive. See these stripes? They give me strength, clarity. Right or wrong, up and down, they tell me what to do, which means that fear can kiss my six.

Diggle

[speaking at Oliver's funeral] The Oliver that I met eight years ago is not the one that we say goodbye to today. Oliver always told me that in order to save his city, he had to become someone else, he had to become something else. I always thought that meant becoming the Green Arrow, but ... Today I realized that meant becoming a better man, the best man he knew how to be, and he took all of us with him on that journey. He changed everything. Oliver brought heroes into the world, he inspired heroes, he inspired all of us here. I was his brother and Oliver Queen was mine. Of course, life will go on. It always does. But how, what twists and turns it will take, I can't say. I don't know what the future holds, except to say expect the unexpected. Oliver may be gone, but his mission endures. That mission lives on, Oliver lives on in the people he inspired. Some will take that mission to the rest of the world, maybe even beyond that. Because if the past 8 years has shown us anything, it's that this universe is far bigger than any of us could've dared imagine, even if it is a little less bright without him in it.

John Diggle

So how was your evening, sir?

Oliver

You mean after I said I had to go the bathroom at dinner and never came back?

Diggle

I guess from now on I'll be watching you pee.

Oliver

You don't think much of me, do you?

Diggle

Actually, sir, I have a very high regard for how... perceptive you are.

Oliver

[to the new body guard] I gotta go to the wash room, Rob.

Diggle

[to Rob] Oh, that boy's long gone man.

Diggle

You really did lose your mind on that island.

Oliver

Found a couple of things along the way.

Diggle

Like what? Archery classes?

Oliver

Clarity.

Oliver

I think you have the wrong impression about what it is I do.

Diggle

You take out bad guys with a bow and arrow.

Oliver

I don't fight street crime. That's a symptom of what's wrong with this city; I'm trying to cure the disease.

Diggle

CEOs and crooked entrepreneurs, I get it. Listen, Oliver, I'm just saying maybe you can make a difference if you think beyond the scope of those pages. I'm sure your father wouldn't mind.

Oliver

No, you don't get it. My father died so that I could live. Live and make a difference by fixing the city that he and the people in this book ruined. Every name that I cross off this list honors that sacrifice.

Diggle

Oliver, there's more than one way to save this city.

Oliver

Not for me. Crime happens in this city every day. What do you want me to do? Stop all of it?

Diggle

Sounds like you have a narrow definition of being a hero.

Oliver

I'm not a hero.

Oliver

You lied to me.

Diggle

You asked me to work with you, not for you. And when you did, you said it was because you understood the kind of man I am. Well, Oliver, I'm the kind of man who doesn't walk away when there's a chance to make a difference. And neither does Stan Washington. Oliver, I'm not finished talking. Where are you going?

Oliver

To make a difference. Let's catch some bank robbers.

Diggle

Please don't tell me you're going where I think you're going.

Oliver

Diggle, why do you even ask?