the best pep talk ever.

The best pep talk ever. F**king Al...So damn good at this...

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I don』t know what to say really. 3 minutes, to the biggest battle of our professional lives. All comes to down today. We heel as a team or we』re gonna crumble, inch by inch, play by play till we finished.

We are in hell right now, gentleman, believe me, and we can stay here and get the shit kick out of us, or we can fight out 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 see these young faces and I think, I mean, I made every wrong choice that 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 your life, things get taken from. Well, that’s part of life. But you only learn that when you start losing stuff.

You find out life is the game of inches, so is football. Because in either game, life or football, the margin for error is so small, I mean, one half of step too late or too early, and you don』t quiet make it; one half of second too slow or too fast, and you don』t quiet 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 finger nails for that inch. Because we know when we head up all those inches, that’s gonna make the fucking difference between winning and losing, between living and dying!

I』m telling you this, in any fight, it’s the guy who’s willing to die who's gonna win that inch. And I know if I』m goona alive any more, it’s because I』m still willing to fight and die for that inch. Cos that what living is, the six inches in front of your face. Now I can』t make you do it, you』re gonna look at the guy next to you, looking into his eyes, now I think you』re gonna see a guy who would go down inches 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 are gonna do the same for him. That’s a team, gentleman. And either we heel now as a team, or we will die as individuals.

That’s football guys. That’s all it is.

Now what you gonna do?