"It's my job to make school fun."

"You think you can just escape? Walk out of this world like it's some bad movie? It's too easy to make like a bird. To flap your wings as you chicken out after causing all these problems. The tough part's walking. Taking what comes along and walking right through it. That's what real people do."

— Eikichi Onizuka · Great Teacher Onizuka

"Sometimes violence is the only way to get the message across."

— Eikichi Onizuka · Great Teacher Onizuka

"You know, when I was in high school, I was a troublemaker. I hardly went to school. Before I knew it, I was expelled. When I couldn't go anymore, was when I first realized, that school was a great thing. There's a lot of friends and lots of fun things. When I got this old, I wanted even more to go to school. That's why I became a teacher. Because, if I become a teacher, I could stay in school until I die, right? That's why I'm really happy now. I want you to be like that too. I want you to like school. Once it's over, it's too late."

— Eikichi Onizuka · Great Teacher Onizuka

"A brat who is afraid to be hurt isn't qualified to love someone."

— Eikichi Onizuka · Great Teacher Onizuka

"Give a kid a smoke and he'll be happy for a day. Teach him how to smoke... he'll be happy for his whole shortened life."

— Eikichi Onizuka · Great Teacher Onizuka

"We cannot go back to the past, no matter how hard we try. No matter how wonderful it was. The past is nothing but the past."

— Eikichi Onizuka · Great Teacher Onizuka