Inch by Inch – A Motivational Speech by Al Pacino in Any Given Sunday

This motivational speech was delivered by Al Pacino to a fictional football team in a Hollywood movie, Any Given Sunday, directed by Oliver Stone. If you listen carefully, it's a speech about living life to it's fullest, giving your best and working as a team with those around you. Here are some highlights from the speech:
We are in hell right now, ....we can fight our way back into the light. We can climb out of hell. One inch, at a time. ....You know when you get old in life things get taken from you. That's, that's part of life. But, you only learn that when you start losing stuff. You find out that life is just a game of inches. So is football. Because in either game life or football the margin for error is so small. I mean one half step too late or too early you don't quite make it. One half second too slow or too fast and you don't quite catch it. The inches we need are everywhere around us. They are in every break of the game every minute, every second. ...when we add up all those inches that's going to make the fucking difference between WINNING and LOSING between LIVING and DYING. I'll tell you this in any fight it is the guy (ed. note: or gal) who is willing to die who is going to win that inch. And I know if I am going to have any life anymore it is because, I am still willing to fight, and die for that inch because that is what LIVING is. The six inches in front of your face.
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3 Responses to “Inch by Inch – A Motivational Speech by Al Pacino in Any Given Sunday”

  1. streetfighter says:

    is this speech on itunes?

  2. Larry says:

    That was a good point.I would agree.
    It was interesting and very insightful.

    Larry H

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