100 Best Quotes from Netflix’s The Lincoln Lawyer

The Lincoln Lawyer thrilled audiences with its first season. The series follows Mickey Haller, a Los Angeles-based defense attorney, as he navigates the Trevor Elliott murder trial. This career-defining case poses a number of obstacles for Mickey to navigate both professionally and personally.

Here is the scoop on quotes from The Lincoln Lawyer season one!

1. “When I am right, there is no better criminal defense lawyer in Los Angeles.” – Mickey Haller

2. “You’ve never heard of me because I make it a practice not to be heard of.” – Mickey Haller

3. “When you think of all the bad blood in this town between the police and people, you’d think ‘how not to piss people off’ would be in the curriculum.” – Lorna Crane

4. “I can win almost any case as long as I know what I’m dealing with.” – Mickey Haller

5. “A pretty good lawyer wouldn’t go to trial with nothing, would he?” – Mickey Haller

6. “Does this guy realize he’s on trial for murder in a week?”-Mickey

7. “You can only work with what you got.” – Cisco Wojciechowski

8. “It’s not about the money. You gotta win.” – Mickey Haller

9. “I lose this case, and I’m just a guy who got a second chance and fell flat on his face.” – Mickey Haller

10. “I’m telling you, he thrives on this.” – Lorna Crane

11. “Tough to save them when they’re guilty.” – Detective Raymond Griggs

12. “Mickey Haller, I’ll never forget this, man.” – Terrell Coleman

13. “Mr. Golantz, one more word, and I promise you will not be happy.” – Judge James P. Stanton

14. “I mean, we are talking about whether or not you go to prison for the rest of your life, Trevor, and you couldn’t make time to meet with me.” – Mickey Haller

15. “The one thing I have left is my Legacy.” – Trevor Elliott

16. “What if Jerry was just an addict, just like us.” – Mickey Haller

17. “This is your one shot. So, you better take it, or I will find someone else who will, even if I have to represent myself.” – Trevor Elliott

18. “I’m good. Better than good.”  – Mickey Haller

19. “One thing I know, in court, success is all about momentum.” – Mickey Haller

20. “Before you can win, you gotta act like you can win, which means you gotta believe you can win.” – Mickey Haller

21. “If Jerry had a magic bullet, I sure as hell can’t find it.” – Mickey Haller

22. “Told you. Life’s changing.” – Mickey Haller

23. “You know, Jerry wasn’t just a great boss. He was a great man.” – Wren Williams

24. “Well, I’m not much for speeches, except in a courtroom.” – Mickey Haller

25. “But at the end of the day, he wanted to leave his clients better off than how he found ‘em. That’s all any of us can do, right?” – Mickey Haller

26. “It’s like trying to turn a pickle back into a cucumber. You’re a pickle now.” – Izzy Letts

27. “You can’t recover until you know what you’re recovering from.” – Izzy Letts

28. “There’s two juries, Mickey. The one in the courthouse and the Twitter mob outside.” – Trevor Elliott

29. “Momentum’s great. Momentum’s what you want. But momentum can also grind to a halt.” – Mickey Haller

30. “But the more you think, the more you start to dig.” – Mickey Haller

31. “Every case is like a puzzle. It’s a code you’ve got to crack.” – Mickey Haller

32. “You’ve got to find the answers or the magic bullet that’ll blow the whole thing wide open.” – Mickey Haller

33. “To prevent the miscarriage of justice, I’m always ready.” – Mickey Haller

34. “Can’t you just bug me for more playing time like the other dads?” – Joanne Giorgetti

35. “My father used to call the jury the Gods of Guilt because, at the end of the day, they decide.” – Mickey Haller

36. “People see a rich guy hiding behind a wall of suits, and they automatically think you’re guilty.” – Trevor Elliott

37. “If the jury sees us arguing, you’re dead.” – Mickey Haller

38. “Innocent till proven guilty. It’s a fundamental tenet of our justice system.” – Cisco Wojciechowski

39. “Like you said, it’s the women. They get everything done.” – Cisco Wojciechowski

40. “I did like her. Until I found out she was a frustrated writer who wants to turn this into a movie.” – Mickey Haller

41. “To make matters worse, I have to run every choice by my client.” – Mickey Haller

42. “You can never really know if you picked the right jury or not.” – Mickey Haller

43. “I left a motorcycle club to work for you, and somehow my life has gotten even crazier.” – Cisco Wojciechowski

44. “You know, money makes people think they can do anything and get away with it.” – Mickey Haller Sr.

45. “Don’t ask questions you don’t want answers to.” – Legal Siegal

46. “Remind me never to run for District Attorney.” – Maggie McPherson

47. “If it’s not the police, then it has to be me.” – Mickey Haller

48. “I had a setback, and I’m sorry for that. But I’m a man of my word. If nothing else, I’m that.” – Mickey Haller

49. “The pain I was killing was not from the accident.” – Mickey Haller

50. “These things are an acquired taste which I’ve never acquired.” – Maggie McPherson

51. “Cabernet and negotiating don’t always mix.” – Maggie McPherson

52. “Can’t you guys just be like normal parents?” – Hayley Haller

53. “Nobody gambles their freedom on a business deal.” – Mickey Haller

54. “Trust me, your car being bugged is the least of your worries.” – Trevor Elliott

55. “Opening statements are special. It’s your time to bond with the jury, but go on too long, you’ll lose them.” – Mickey Haller

56. “If they like me, they like my case.” – Mickey Haller

57. “I promise, once you get out of the other side of the prosecution’s tunnel, you will be squinting at the sunlight, wondering where their case is.” – Mickey Haller

58. “It’s bad enough when a witness is killing you, but even worse, when the prosecutor uses them to run out the clock because that witness who’s killing you is also the last thing the jury hears that day.” – Mickey Haller

59. “The girls at school think that because my dad is representing a monster, he must be a monster.” – Hayley Haller

60. “My dad is not a bad person, but it’s hard when he represents bad people.” – Hayley Haller

61. “Everyone in that courtroom is an entire world to someone else.” – Lorna Crane

62. “This freaking job. Other people have no idea what it does to you.” – Detective Lankford

63. “Griggs is like a dog with a bone. If there’s something there, that guy will dig it up.” – Detective Lankford

64. “Contrary to what you believe, not everything I do is because of you.” – Hayley Haller

65. “I’m the dad you call when you need someone’s legs broken.” – Cisco Wojciechowski

66. “People who owe me too many times tend to end up regretting it.” – Teddy Vogul

67. “It takes a schemer to know one, and you’re scheming.” – Izzy Letts

68. “As long as we win, you have nothing to worry about.” – Mickey Haller

69. “There’s the normal way to handle things, and there’s the Mickey way.” – Maggie McPherson

70. “I’m out of time to be chasing ghosts.” – Mickey Haller

71. “One thing about this job is that you can’t just look at something once.” – Mickey Haller

72. “If your client is the hero of the story, sometimes you gotta give the jury a villain too.” – Mickey Haller

73. “The things I know for a fact are the things that happen in front of my face.” – Mickey Haller

74. “It’s like boxing. We won the fight on points, but my guy wants to brawl.” – Mickey Haller

75. “I will not spend the rest of my life hearing people whisper, ‘Did he do it?’ behind my back.” – Trevor Elliott

76. “This whole time, I feel like I’m wearing a dead man’s suit.” – Mickey Haller

77. “Sometimes, you just gotta ride the horse you rode in on.” – Mickey Haller

78. “You want me to trust you again? Then start by trusting me.” – Maggie McPherson

79. “Your honor, is my client being tried on an Xbox or in a court of law?” – Mickey Haller

80. “That’s my job. I won’t apologize for it.” – Maggie McPherson

81. “If you don’t listen to what the prosecutor is saying, you’ll miss your chance to take the weakest part of your case and turn it into your greatest strength.” – Mickey Haller

82. “You didn’t hire me just to tell you what you want to hear.” – Cisco Wojciechowski

83. “I will walk right up to the line, but I won’t sell out a client, ever.” – Mickey Haller

84. “So the lawyer that advertises on bus benches has come down here to put me in my place.” – Trevor Elliott

85. “You played me, Trevor. I don’t get played.” – Mickey Haller

86. “Like I said, everybody lies. But even the best liars give themselves away.” – Mickey Haller

87. “We’re all pawns sometimes, Mickey.” – Trevor Elliott

88. “That’s one thing you’re good at, Trevor, making it look real.” – Mickey Haller

89. “You’re a loose end, Haller.” – Trevor Elliott

90. “Well, I can tell you who killed Jerry Vincent. He’s at the bottom of that cliff now.” – Mickey Haller

91. “What kind of a lawyer are you anyways, huh?” – Maggie McPherson

92. “Save it for the book club, honey. You don’t get me, and you never will.” – Gloria Dayton

93. “Something happens to me or my family, it’ll go to places you don’t want it to.” – Mickey Haller

94. “Whatever Trevor may have done, stays with me.” – Mickey Haller

95. “Yeah, you know, he’s not perfect, but at least he cares.” – Maggie McPherson

96. “The only thing I’ll regret is not putting this guy away while I have the chance.” – Maggie McPherson

97. “Since when did you become such a worrier, Haller?” – Maggie McPherson

98. “If you were in my shoes, would things be any different?” – Mickey Haller

99. “Some lawyers, they can just leave it at the office. Lock it up, get on with their lives. It’s not me. It’s certainly not you.” – Maggie McPherson

100. “All I know is I had to make this right, Hayley. That’s the thing I had to do.” – Mickey Haller

These characters and their quotes make The Lincoln Lawyer the smart, witty show that it is. You can watch The Lincoln Lawyer on Netflix!

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