Lester Averman 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.

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.

Lester Averman: Aw, I smell something.

Lester Averman, Goldberg, Jesse, Charlie, Adam: Goldberg!

Goldberg: It wasn't me!

Portman: [proudly] No, it was me!

Coach Bombay: Haven't you guys been training in the off-season?

Lester Averman: You know, I knew we forgot something.

Lester Averman: Here with us, Greg Goldberg, goaltender for Team USA. Greg, what's it gonna take to beat these feisty Icelanders, tonight?

Goldberg: I think it will take a supreme individual effort, by me, Greg Goldberg.

[on the Iceland players]

Lester Averman: They're bigger! They're stronger! They're faster! They've got more facial hair!

Lester Averman: Hey, is that a tattoo? Is it real?

Dean: Get away from me.

Lester Averman: Yes sir.