Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV Series)

Rise of the Turtles: Part 1 (2012)

Hoon Lee: Splinter

Quotes 

• Splinter : You all did very well.

  Raphael : But I did better.

  Splinter : This is about self improvement, Raphael. Not about winning or losing.

  Raphael : I know Sensei, but I won and they lost.

  [Splinter pinches Raph on his pressure point] 

  Raphael : [in pain]  Wh-what's really important is that we all did our best! Great job, everyone!

• Splinter : And so your inability to work together allowed them all to get away.

  Raphael : Well, maybe if I didn't have to waste time arguing with hero boy, I could've saved them.

  Leonardo : Hey, if you hadn't gotten in my way, I could have done it, and you went flying off on your own. How smart was that?

  Donatello : Well, it would've worked out great if somebody hadn't hit me in the head with their nunchucks.

  Michelangelo : Well none of this would've happened if somebody hadn't trusted us to go up there in the first place.

  [Splinter stops] 

  Michelangelo : [sheepish]  Oh geez. Sensei, I didn't mean to...

  Splinter : No, Michelangelo, you are right.

  Michelangelo : I am?

  Raphael , Leonardo , Donatello : He is?

  Splinter : You were not fully prepared for what was up there. I trained you to fight as individuals, not as a team, and as your teacher - your father - the responsibility for that is mine. Perhaps in another year, we can try again.

  Donatello : Another year? We don't have another year!

• Splinter : Yes, you must save her.

  Leonardo : I agree, Sensei but in that fight, we weren't exactly a well-oiled machine.

  Michelangelo : Like that robot with the brain thingy.

  Raphael : Give it a rest.

  Splinter : Hmm. If you are to fight more effectively as a unit, you are going to need a leader.

  Leonardo : Can I be the leader?

  Raphael : Why should you be the leader? I kicked your butt. I should be the leader.

  Donatello : Hey, I'm smarter than all you guys put together it should be me.

  Michelangelo : I think it should be me.

  [all stop to look at Mikey] 

  Michelangelo : I don't really have a reason I just think it would be neat.

• Splinter : Wisdom comes from experience, and experience comes from making mistakes.