Life’s a game of inches

Life’s a game of inches, and so’s football.  In either game, life or football, the margin for error is so small: I mean, a half a step too late, or too early, and you don’t quite make it; one step too slow or too fast, you don’t quite catch it… The inches we need are all around us.  They’re in every break of the game, every man we see. On this team, we fight for that inch.  On this team, we tear ourselves and everyone else around us apart for that inch. We claw for that inch.  Because we know, when we add up all those inches, that’s gonna make the f***ing difference between winning and losing… between living and dying.”

Al Pacino as coach Tony D’Amato in Any Given Sunday

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