Games of Inches

Al Pacino in Any Given Sunday 

I don't know what to say really.
We got three minutes left till the biggest battle of our professional lives....It all comes down to today.
We either heal as a team or we gonna crumble, inch by inch, play by play -- until we're finished.
We're in hell right now,gentleman, believe me. And we can sit here... get the shit kicked out of us, or we can fight our way back into the light; we can climb out of this anger and this doubt and this uncertainity -- we can climb out of  hell -- one inch at a time,or....

Now I can't do it for you... I'm too old. I look around at your faces and I see young men and I think I made every wrong choice a middle-aged old man can make -- my life is a long list of rookie mistakes. i pissed away all my money, -believe it or not- chased off anyone that ever loved me....and lately I can't even stand the face I see in the mirror.

.You know... when we get old in life, things... things are taken from you...but well, that's.... that's part of life. But, you only learn
that when you lose stuff.
You find out that life is this game of inches! So's football.
Because in either game, life or football, the margin for error is so small...so small guys. One half-step too late or too early and 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're in every break of the game, every minute, every second.

Mandrake forgot that. He was grabbing for miles when he only needed inches. And on this team there are no shortcuts.
There are no more DoctorMandrakes. (Frase non inserita nella versione ufficiale del film)

On this team we fight for that inch. We tear ourselves and everyone else around us to pieces for that inch! We claw with our fingernails for that inch 'cause when you add up all those inches, that's gonna make the fucking difference between winning
and loosing -- between LIVING and DYING...

I can tell you this, in any fight  it's the guy who's willing to die who's going to win that inch. And I know if I'm gonna have any kind of life anymore,it's because I'm still willing to fight and die for that inch...
CAUSE THAT'S WHAT LIVING IS.
The six inches in front of your faces. Now, I can't make you do it.
You have to look around -- look at the guy next to you -- look into his eyes -- and I think you'll see a guy you know will go that inch with you. You'll see a guy who'll sacrifice himself for this team because when it comes down to it, he knows you would do the same for him!

That's a team, gentlemen!

And either we will heal now AS A TEAM! -- or we will die as individuals...
That's football guys.
That's all it is.
Now, what are you going to do?