3 minutes to the biggest battle of our professional lives.
All comes down to today.
We heal as a team,
Or we’re gonna crumble.
Inch by inch,
Play by play,
Till we finish.
We’re in hell right now, gentlemen.
Believe me.
And we can stay here and get the s*** kicked outta us,
Or we can fight our way back into the light.
We can climb outta hell.
One inch at a time.
Now I can’t do it for ya.
I’m too old.
I look around, I see these young faces and I think,
I mean.. I made every wrong choice a middle aged man can make.
I.. uh, pissed away all my money, believe it or not.
I chased off anyone who’s ever loved me.
And lately, I can’t even stand the face I see in the mirror.
You know, when you get old in life, things get taken away from you
That’s part of life
But you only learn that when you start losing stuff
You find out life’s game inches
So’s football.
Because in either game; life or football
The margin for error is so small.
I mean.. One half a step too late or too early,
And you don’t quite make it.
One half a second too slow, too fast,
You don’t quite catch it.
The inches we need are everywhere around us.
They’re in every break of a game,
Every minute,
Every second.
On this team, we fight for that inch.
On this team, we tear ourselves and everyone else around us to pieces for that inch.
We claw with our fingernails for that inch
Because we know, when we add up all those inches,
That’s gonna make the difference between winning and losing,
Between living and dying.
In any fight, it’s the guy who’s willing to die who’s gonna win that inch.
And I know if I’m gonna have any life anymore,
It’s because I’m still willing to fight and die for that inch.
Because that’s what living is.
That 6 inches in front of you
Now, I can’t make you do it.
You gotta look at the guy next to you.
Look into his eyes.
Now I think you’re gonna see a guy who will go that inch with you
Because he knows when it comes down to it, you’re gonna do the same for him.
That’s a team, gentlemen.
And either we heal now,
Or we will die as individuals.
Now what are you gonna do?
Any Given Sunday – Peace by Inches – Pacino
