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I understand that this is subjective, and there’s plenty of classic (even great) football movies such as Friday Night Lights, The Replacements, Remember the Titans, The Waterboy and more, and I want to know what your favorite speech(es) from your favorite football movies are, but one movie and one speech is the greatest, and you already know what it is.
You clicked on this headline to ensure you were right, and I am here to tell you, objectively, that YOU are right.
The best football speech (you already know) from a football move is Al Pacino’s “Inch by Inch” speech as head coach Tony D’Amato in Any Given Sunday. It’s not close, and if you feel differently that’s cool, I welcome you to this thread, and I accept you, but I don’t agree with you. And somewhere deep down in places you don’t talk about at parties, you know I am right.
Curtesy of rev.com, we have the transcript (with timestamps!) right here (the actual clip is above):
“Al Pacino / Coach D’Amato: (00:01)
I don’t know what to say really. Three minutes to the biggest battle of our professional lives, all comes down to today. Either we heal as a team, or we’re going to crumble, inch by inch, play by play, til we’re finished.
Al Pacino / Coach D’Amato: (00:29)
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 made every wrong choice a middle-aged man can make.
Al Pacino / Coach D’Amato: (01:14)
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. I mean, that’s part of life. But you only learn that, when you start losing stuff.
Al Pacino / Coach D’Amato: (01:47)
You find out life’s this 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
Al Pacino / Coach D’Amato: (02:22)
On this team, we fight for that inch. On this team, we tear ourselves and everyone else around...
