Friday, October 20, 2006

Still a Classic Al Pacino - The 6 inches in front of your face...



I don't know what to say really. Three minutes till the biggest battle of our professional lives. It all comes down to today. Now either we heal as a team, or we're gonna crumble. Inch by inch, play by play, till we're finished. We're in hell right now, gentlemen. Believe me. And we can stay here, 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, I see these young faces, and I think... I mean I've made every wrong choice a middle-aged man can make. I 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 from you. That's part of life. But you only learn that when you start losing stuff. You find out life's this game of inches. And so is 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 second too slow too fast, 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. 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 fucking difference between winning and losing! Between living and dying! I'll tell you this - in any fight, its the guy whose willing to die who's gonna win that inch. And I know if I'm going to have any life anymore, it's because I'm still willing to fight and die for that inch. Because that's what living is! The 6 inches in front of your face...

Now I can't make you do it. You've got to 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. You're gonna see a guy who will sacrifice himself for this team, 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, 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?


5 Comments:

duygu said...

Still...

I remember you, 4 years ago, listening to it every day!

And still?

I thought so.

:=)

7:17 PM  
Yigit Pasha said...

Not everyday... I listen Bridget Jones now... haha

3:51 PM  
Ozge said...

Yaaa bende ne deyim ki, aylardan sonra ilk defa bloguna girdim. Sonra Al Pacino'yu gordum. Diyorum ki yillar geciyor, en son ne zamandi seni gordugum de acaba? Ama bak yillardan da sonra Yigit yine ayni Yigit! :) Inch by inch; play by play; replikte ayni :)
Bak bide aklima Sutis'de tatli yedigimiz zaman geldi,hatirlarmisin bakiim? (neredeyse 4 yil once :))

Neyse iyi bak kendine; NZ'ye beklerim. ;)

Sipa

2:22 PM  
Yigit Pasha said...

Sen ne yapiyon hala NZ larda sipa...

Is varmi geleyim koyun vb tras yaparim, sut sagarim, balik tutarim bi gelelim oralara sikildim Ozge Sikildi canim cok geliyorum...

Ne sutas i - ha hatirladim tavuk goguslu Ankara sohbetleri...
Haydi bakalim...

3:40 PM  
Ozge said...

Yigitcan naber? Oldun mu, kaldin mi? Resmen Phillipino mu oldun, ne oldun?

Bir haber sal! ;)

10:14 AM  

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