103. Winning A Battle, Losing The War - Quotes

Meredith: We live out our lives on the surgical unit. Seven days a week, fourteen hours a day. We're together more than we're apart. After a while the ways of residency become the ways of life. Number One. Always keep score. Number two. Do whatever you can to outsmart the other guy. Number three. Don't make friends with the enemy. Oh and yeah number four. Everything. Everything is a competition. Whoever said that winning wasn’t everything… never held a scalpel.
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Derek: Morning, Dr. Bailey.
Dr. Bailey: Shut up.
Derek: You realize that I'm an attending and you're only a resident? That you work for me, right?
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Dr. Bailey: Fools on bikes killing themselves. Natural selection is what it is.
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Alex [to George]: So what's up with the Nazi? Is she off her meds?
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George: Every year this bar...
Meredith: The Dead Baby Bar.
George: Every year, they hold this underground bike race.
Izzie: Don't you wonder why someone would name a bar something so disgusting?
Cristina: Keep your panties on, Nancy Drew.
George: The race is completely illegal, and...
Meredith: Crazy, a bunch of bike messengers racing against traffic trying to beat each other for free shots of tequila.
Alex: All-out, no holds barred competition. Sounds like fun.
Izzie: Yeah, you would think that.
George: The race, the race doesn’t even have any rules. Except eye gouging. No eye gouging.
Cristina: Oh great, we’re going to be trapped in the Pit bandaging up idiots when we could be up in the O.R?
George: What kind of people engage in a race that has, as its only rule, that you can’t rip out the eyeballs of another human being?
Alex: Men, Georgie, men.
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Cristina: Oh, it’s like candy, but with blood, which is so much better.
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George: I don’t know if you’ve listened to the surgeon-general lately, say in the past twenty years, but smoking is bad. Smoking will kill you.
Lloyd: Liver cancer will kill me. Smoking will just speed up the process.
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Viper: Ah, you got a nice touch. And by the way, you are a rocking babe.
Meredith: Seriously, do you actually think you have a shot here?
Viper: I like to think I’ve got a shot anywhere.
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Meredith: Okay, well, you realise that you’re leaving against medical advice and that I strongly urge you to stay.
Viper: The frat guy said I could go.
Meredith: The frat guy is an ass. Okay, well, you have to sign an AMA form.
Viper: Darlin’, I will do anything you want me to.
Meredith: What is it with you guys and your need to dirty everything up?
Viper: I don’t know. Maybe it’s just testosterone, eh?
Meredith: Maybe. You might want to see a doctor about that, too.
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Meredith: What do you want?
Derek: You make out with patients now?
Meredith: What are you jealous?
Derek: I don’t get jealous.
Meredith: We had sex, once.
Derek: And we kissed, in an elevator.
Meredith: And we kissed in an elevator, once!
Derek: No, seriously, I mean come on, go out with me.
Meredith: No.
Derek: You know, I almost died today. Yeah, I came like this close. How would you feel if I died? And you didn’t get a chance to go out with me?
Meredith: Get over yourself already.
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Alex: What’re you doing?
George: Hiding. There’s this VIP patient, he likes me.
Alex: Well, that’s good, right?
George: He likes me likes me.
Alex: Go for it, man, get yours. I’m down with the rainbow. Oh. Are you not gay?
George: No!
Alex: Really? Dude, sorry.
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Izzie: Okay, well, I know you probably can’t hear me, and you’re feeling this big push to go towards the light, where everything is all haloes and all-you-can-eat buffets and stuff. And I mean, sharing your organs is really great and all, but I think you have a family. I can feel it. So I think it’d be really great if you could do me a favour, and get better. Just… live. So you think you could give that a shot for me?
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Izzie: No! I’m not giving up on him. He has the surgery, he lives longer, that’s the point. So I’m going to help find the family, you guys find a way to get him into surgery.
Cristina [to Meredith]: She’s vice-president of fantasyland.
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Dr. Burke: You gave a brain-dead John Doe a blood transfusion without consulting anyone. And now you want me to repair his heart?
Cristina: Well, yes.
Dr. Burke: You do enjoy crossing the line, don’t you?
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Dr. Burke: I am a surgeon. I save lives. This guy is already dead. Now, this is the men’s room. Either whip one out or close the door.
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George: You underestimate me. I’m not a baby, I’m your colleague. You don’t have to manipulate me. If you want something all you have to do is ask.
Izzie: We want you to go over Burke’s head to the Chief.
George: Ask me something easier.
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George: I’m going to have to dodge Burke for the rest of my career. He could kill me and make it look like an accident.
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Meredith: You have got to be kidding me! Okay. I have more important things to deal with than you. I have roommates, and boy problems, and family problems. You want to act like a little frat boy bitch? That’s fine. You want to take credit for your saves, and everybody else’s? That’s fine too. Just stay out of my face. And for the record, you smell like crap!
Alex [to Derek]: She attacked me.
Derek: Meredith, Meredith, Meredith! [to Alex]You know you might want to leave. Before I change my mind and let her beat you to a pulp with her tiny ineffectual fists.
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Meredith: Where did all this stuff come from?
Izzie: Oh, I unpacked some of your mother’s things. I was upset, and when I’m upset I like to nest.
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Meredith: No. No. We’re not watching my mother’s surgery tapes! We’re not unpacking boxes! We’re not having long conversations where we celebrate the moments of our lives. And use a coaster!
George: I ordered Chinese food.
Meredith: I hate Chinese food!
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Meredith: They’re everywhere. All the time. Izzie’s all perky and George does this thing where he’s helpful and considerate. They share food and they say things and they move things, and they breathe. Uh! They’re like happy.
Cristina: Kick them out.
Meredith: I can’t kick them out. They just moved in. I asked them to move in.
Cristina: So what, you’re just going to repress everything in some deep dark twisted place until one day you snap and kill them?
Meredith: Yep.
Cristina: This is why we are friends.
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Alex: It kills me that anyone got the harvest but me. Boobs do not factor into this equation. Unless you want to show me yours.
Meredith: I’m going to become a lesbian.
Cristina: Me too.
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Dr. Bailey [to Viper's friends]: Is he okay? No. No, he is not okay, at all. He hurled his body down a concrete mountain at full speed for no good reason. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know you all pierce yourselves and smoke up and generally treat your bodies like your grungy asses can’t break down. Hey, hey, that’s fine. You want to kill yourselves, flying down a concrete mountain, go to it, but there are other people walking, people driving, people trying live their lives on that concrete mountain, and one of them got his brains scrambled today because one of you little sniffling no good snot rag-
Meredith: Doctor Bailey –
Dr. Bailey: Yeah, yeah so okay, no! Your friend Viper, as far as I’m concerned, is not okay.
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Derek: It’s not the chase.
Meredith: What?
Derek: You and me. It is not the thrill of the chase. It’s not a game. It’s… it’s your tiny ineffectual fists. And your hair.
Meredith: My hair?
Derek: Smells good. And you’re very, very bossy. Keeps me in line.
Meredith: I’m still not going out with you.
Derek: You say that now.
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Meredith: One you have to learn for yourself. Number five. It’s not about the race at all. There are no winners or losers. Victories are counted by the number of lives saved. And once in a while, if you’re smart, the life you save could be your own.