Stand and Deliver (1988)

Will Gotay: Pancho Garcia

Quotes 

• Jaime Escalante : Do you want me to do it for you?

  Pancho : Yes.

  Jaime Escalante : You're supposed to say no.

• Pancho : [Escalante is driving Pancho's car]  Kemo, I don't wanna let you down but the money I'd be making'll buy me a new Trans Am.

  Jaime Escalante : No one cruise through life, Pancho. Wouldn't you rather be designing these things than repairing them? Can't even do that, things got fuel injection -

  [grinds gears] 

  Pancho : Kemo, you're gonna strip my gears, man!

  Jaime Escalante : Don't panic, Johnny, just watch out for the other guy -

  [grinds gears again] 

  Jaime Escalante : Right or left?

  Pancho : GO RIGHT! GO RIGHT!

  Jaime Escalante : [Kemo turns right, screams to halt in front of a dead end] 

  Jaime Escalante : All you can see is the turn, don't see the road ahead...

• Pancho : [struggling with a calculus problem]  Don't laugh!

  Jaime Escalante : How can we laugh? You're breaking our hearts.

• Jaime Escalante : Hey, what you got?

  Pancho : I got a core.

  Jaime Escalante : You owe me a hundred percent. And I'll see you in the People's Court.

• Pancho : I don't need no math. I got a solar calculator with my dozen donuts.