“What we’re going to do today is...

“What we’re going to do today is go to the liquor store, go home and get drunk. The cops can take those rubber bullets home. They’re not going to need them.”

Marvin Clay, interviewed Saturday while celebrating with a group of friends near Florence and Normandie

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“I’m kind of satisfied with what went down until August, until they make a decision and the two officers are sentenced. I don’t know that it’s a sense of relief. A lot of people feel a sense that justice was served and what was overdue has finally come. Everybody but Daryl Gates, I guess.”

Los Angeles Lakers guard Byron Scott, who grew up in an area hit by last year’s riots and lives in Ladera Heights

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“Trial? I don’t know about such a trial. Who is this Rodman King?”

Geulla Madiel of the San Fernando Valley, waiting with her son at a Ventura Boulevard karate studio, when asked about the verdicts

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“I thank God. . . . Thank you very much.”

Korean shop owner Kee Eun Chogh, taking down large plywood boards that he had placed over the windows of his Pacoima electronics store the night before the verdicts

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“He got to see his wife one hour each week in the presence of a marshal. I asked him about conjugal visits. He said he talked to the marshal about that and the marshal said, ‘You can make it conjugal if you want, but I have to watch.’ ”

KNBC television anchorman Jess Marlow, recounting his interview Saturday with one of the jurors in the King case

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“You know how it goes. They give up one or two to make everything seem right. . . . They needed something to pacify the public’s tension. But ain’t nothing changed. . . . We’d do better walking through a cage of hungry lions with a double-breasted pork chop suit on than get a fair shake in court.”

Heavy-D, 22, of the Imperial Courts housing project in Watts

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“You can feel the sense of relief on the streets. The mood is like, ‘Let’s all take a deep breath and go forward.’ . . . Not everyone is totally happy. Some say there should have been more convictions. But the feeling is sure a lot different than last year.”

LAPD Officer Art Holmes, after cruising around South-Central Los Angeles Saturday