Coach Orion Quotes in D3: The Mighty Ducks (1996)

Coach Orion: [picks hockey puck up off the ice and addresses the Ducks] What's the one thing all great teams have in common?

Lester Averman: Great coaching.

Coach Orion: [unamused] Don't try to suck up to me, Averman.

[pause]

Coach Orion: Defense. See, unlike scoring, defense never quits. But to play great defense you need one thing above all else.

Lester Averman: [sarcastically, to Goldberg] Bet it starts with a W.

Coach Orion: Confidence. Listen, if you learn nothin' else when you're here, you learn this, all right? This is not just about hockey. It's easy to be confident when you have control of the puck. It's very, very difficult to keep that confidence when you gotta take whatever strange bounces life throws your way. Don't be careless, but don't be too careful either. You cannot be afraid to lose! That's how you gain the confidence to attack the game when the puck isn't yours. That's how you attack life... even when you think you don't have any control. And that's how you play real defense.

Gordon Bombay: [to the board] You know why I'm so good? Because I had a good education, you gave it to me. And you're going to give it to these kids.

Coach Orion: [to Charlie] He *is* good.

Charlie Conway: Just getting started.

Coach Orion: [blows whistle] Let's go! Get over here! Take a knee. You guys are not skating like Warriors. You look like something else. You look like Ducks.

Coach Orion: You're playing hard. I'm proud of you guys.

Luis Mendoza: They're cheap-shotting us to death.

Coach Orion: I know they are. I know they are.

Lester Averman: It's going to take a miracle for us to hold on.

Dean Portman: [enters the lockeroom reading his scholarship] Dean Portman is awarded a full athletic and academic scholarship to the Eden Hall Academy. I had this lying around the house in Chicago, my attorney thought I should sign, I agreed. It's official boys. I'm back!

Charlie Conway: [aside to Orien] Bombay.

Coach Orion: Goldberg, when's the last time you practiced?

Goldberg: Well, we don't really practice per say. We either play or... play around.

Coach Orion: Hey Charlie. We've really backed into a corner here. We hold them for 2 minutes, we've got ourselves a tie.

Charlie Conway: We're up to it.

Coach Orion: I know you are. But you deserve to win. Not carless, but not to careful either. You see your shot take it.

[Puts a "C" on Charlie's jersey]

Coach Orion: Go get them Captain.

Coach Orion: [in reference to Bombay] He IS good.

Charlie Conway: Just getting started.