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If you are facing a very important exam and you are not sure about your skills, or if you have to meet your parents-in-law for the first time and you feel nervous, or if you have a job interview and you need to believe in yourself; maybe this video could help you. I hope so!

This video was taken from Oliver Stone's movie "Any Given Sunday". The great Al Pacino (widely recognised as one of the greatest actors of all times) plays an old football coach on this movie.

Nobody is shouting in movies like Pacino. Despite he is not very tall (1,67 mtrs.) when he becomes angry or raging he´s like a giant and nobody can overshadow him. That´s the magic of movie legends.

This part of a movie is a key scene in the plot, and at a certain point, it´s a cliché you have seen hundreds of times on films: the leader of the team (Pacino) must motivate his pupils in the final adventure, the final chance (in this case is a football match, but in other cases is a battle or a fight for survival...). And so, those scenes are very moving (and that´s the duty of the clichés, to manipulate and setting us in the appropiate mood...).

I recomend you this movie, even in case you don´t like football, because Pacino´s performance (and others in the movie like Jamie Foxx, Cameron Diaz or James Woods) and Stone´s energetic direction truly deserves a watch.

 

 

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I don´t know what to say, really.
Three minutes...
...till the biggest battle
of our proffesional lives.
All comes down to today.
Either we heal as a team...
...or we gonna crumble.
Inch by inch, play by play,
Till we´re finished.

We´re in hell right now, gentleman.
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 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.
But relax, that´s part of life.
But you only learn that
When you start losing stuff.

You find out life is 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 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´re 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 now when we add up
all those inches...
...that´s gonna make the f***ing difference
between winning and losing!
Between living and dying!
 
I´ll tell 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 gonna have
any life anymore...
...it´s because I´m still willing
to fight and die for that inch.

Because that 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!

I think you´re gonna see a guy
who´ll 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 individual.

That´s football, guys...
That´s all it is
Now...
...what are you gonna do?


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