Al Pacino's Inch By Inch speech from Any Given Sunday

I don't know what to say really.
Three minutes
to the biggest battle of our professional lives
all comes down to today.
Either
we heal
as a team
or we are going to crumble.
Inch by inch
play by play
till we're finished.
We are in hell right now, gentlemen
believe me
and
we can stay here
and get the shit kicked out of us
or
we can fight our way
back into the light.
We can climb out of hell.
One inch, at a time.

Now I can't do it for you.
I'm too old.
I look around and I see these young faces
and I think
I mean
I made every wrong choice a middle age man could make.
I uh....
I pissed away all my money
believe it or not.
I chased off
anyone who has 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 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 to 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 ever break of the game
every minute, every second.

On this team, we fight for that inch
On this team, we tear ourselves, and everyone around us
to pieces for that inch.
We CLAW with our finger nails for that inch.
Cause we know
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 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.

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 are going to see a guy who will go that inch with you.
You are going to see a guy
who will sacrifice himself for this team
because he knows when it comes down to it,
you are gonna do the same thing for him.

That's a team, gentlemen
and either we heal now, as a team,
or we will die as individuals.
That's football guys.
That's all it is.
Now, whattaya gonna do?


*just substitute Football For Pick-Up

I suggest getting the video or audio file off the internet

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"Life is about creating yourself, not trying to find it."
-James Matador

"Quit writing the song and just play it" - my ol' uncle

"many people would sooner die than think. in fact, they do."

Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right. - Henry Ford

"I was pissed at the trash cans because they were round" - one of my friends from college

ok it didn't change my life but i laughed

"Seize every opportunity so you can never have a regret or say the words 'what if.' "

"Do you want to look back when your 40 and realize how many days you wasted, how many opportunities slipped out of your hands."

both my own quotes.

helped get me motivated.

"Don't hesitate, don't look back, don't let anything slow you down."

"Women are just little girls with tits."

"you have to know, not fear, that someday you are going to die"

"It is simple, really. You can either not try and die, try and fail and die or try and succeed and die. Which option do you preffer the most?"

"Anyone can die, very few of us know how to live."

And finally, my fevourite quote of them all:
THOU ART GOD!

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Anyone can walk into a bar and pick up a random girl.
The trick is to make the experience unforgettable to her.
A real PUA will make every women he encounters feel like she experience something once in a lifetime.

"Don't hesitate, don't look back, don't let anything slow you down."
Especially meaningful for when pedestrians are crossing the street...

And finally, my fevourite quote of them all:
THOU ART GOD!
"God...the mechanic...heh! Funny!" (Please tell me you got that from eXistenZ, otherwise you'll totally miss that joke)

All your other quotes are money Rose, but I had to crack some jokes at those!

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"The 'Brick Walls' are there to allow you to prove how badly you want something!" ~ Randy Pausch

~ Rye

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Anyone can walk into a bar and pick up a random girl.
The trick is to make the experience unforgettable to her.
A real PUA will make every women he encounters feel like she experience something once in a lifetime.

love the life you live and live the life you love

heard this in a reggee song , luv it lol

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Buck on ! ! !

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

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Formerly Titan42

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

"SUCH IS LIFE" Ned Kelly
Works on so many levels

the present moment itself holds an eternity

something eckhart tolle said, i think. think i read it in his book, don't remember exactly how it goes, but it's meaning has stuck to my mind and affected me greatly.

I like :

"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always got"

basically a concise version of saying if you do the same thing over and over again and expect different results then you are an idiot so you need to do something different.. move outside your comfort zone etc.

If you can't attract a women, you are, by definition, sterile. -DD