Quoting “Any Given Sunday,” on how to succeed

Three minutes until the biggest battle of our professional lives, all comes down to today ….

I look around, I see these young faces and I think, I mean, I made every wrong choice a middle aged man can make …. But, you only learn that when you start losing stuff. You find out life is this game of inches. So’s 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 ….

Tony D’Amato (Al Pacino).

— Oliver Stone, director