Jim Rockford quotes from The Rockford Files

Jim

Old times only buys you one ticket, and you cashed that yesterday.

Jim

Al, Al, be a good soldier. Don't die, just fade away.

Jim

Well, Fred...looks like you're going to have something to really be depressed about.

Jim

I do my job my way, or I don't do it at all.

Jim

My next attorney's going to be a foundling - someone with no known living relatives.

Jim

[in his finest con-job Texan billionaire drawl] Nick, I've got a thing about loose talk. If you were to run out into the brush for about nine miles and whisper this to a gopher, I'd make it a personal point to bust the wheels off your wagon.

Jim

Okay, Vern, what's your problem? Rabies?

Jim

[On phone with Dennis] Well, what do you want for proof, Dennis? My body? This is second time somebody's tried to kill me in two days! Yeah. I know he's a pillar of the community. No, I won't tell you where I am. [Slams phone]

Jim

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Jim

[after crashing the sabotaged Firebird to a stop] Well, what do you say let's forget the sushimi and call it a day?

Jim

I don't have superiors. I have few peers and no superiors.

Jim

Who? Clement? Oh sure. Yeah, he's got more lines than a telephone company!

Jim

How do you like that? Your Cripple Creek sausages are being distributed by a Chinese noodle company. That oughta knock the old down home country image right in the head.

Jim

That's why I don't involve myself in domestic cases; there's always a lady in a sheet around somewhere!

Jim

Sean, you know what? I'm going to do something I've never done before. Usually I like to talk to a guy first. But with you, I'm gonna rap ya' right in the mouth.