AL PACINO'S SPEECH


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 are going to crumble.
Inch by inch
play by play
till we're finished.
We are in hell right now, gentlemen
believe me
and
we can stay here
and 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 and I see these young faces
and I think
I mean
I made every wrong choice a middle age man could make.
I uh....
I pissed away all my money
believe it or not.
I chased off
anyone who has 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.
That's, that's part of life.
But,
you only learn that when you start losing stuff.
You find out that life is just 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 step too late or to early
you don't quite make it.
One half second too slow or too fast
and you don't quite catch it.
The inches we need are everywhere around us.
They are in ever break of the game
every minute, every second.

On this team, we fight for that inch
On this team, we tear ourselves, and everyone around us
to pieces for that inch.
We CLAW with our finger nails for that inch.
Cause we know
when we add up all those inches
that's going to make the fucking difference
between WINNING and LOSING
between LIVING and DYING.

I'll tell you this
in any fight
it is the guy who is willing to die
who is going to win that inch.
And I know
if I am going to have any life anymore
it is because, I am still willing to fight, and die for that inch
because that is what 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.
Now I think you are going to see a guy who will go that inch with you.
You are going to 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 thing for him.

That's a team, gentlemen
and either we heal now, as a team,
or we will die as individuals.
That's football guys.
That's all it is.
Now, whattaya gonna do?

Here is the speech of William Wallace from "Braveheart":

"I am William Wallace. And I see a whole army of my countrymen,
here in defiance of tyranny! You have come to fight as free men. And
free man you are! What will you do without freedom? Will you fight?"
"Two thousand against ten?" - the veteran shouted. "No! We will
run - and live!"
"Yes!" Wallace shouted back. "Fight and you may die. Run and you
will live at least awhile. And dying in your bed many years from now,
would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for
one chance, just one cahnce, to come back here as young men and tell
our enemies that they may take our lives but they will never take
our freedom!"

leinster friends 6 days ago

Dear Leinster supporters ,

Where to start? Ok, in no particular order then ( bit like your forwards display ):

1. Thanks for taking out Toulouse for us - nice gesture, we really appreciate it.

2. Love the way you and your journos raised yourselves higher than God over the last 3 weeks - loved even more taking you back down to earth Sunday

3. Thanks for selling us most of your ticket allocation - and you were surprised when you saw the sea of red? You just don't get it, do you?

4. Thanks for the fabulous weather on the day - perfect for Leinsters running game!

5. Thanks for losing by such a margin that there can be no " what if's" over the next 100 years

6. Special thanks to Felipe for spectacularly losing the head when rattled by Dennis

7. On behalf of my friends in St John's Ambulance, thanks for a wonderful opportunity to put our Heimlich manoveurs to the test, although next time could you phone in advance to specify that there will be 15 chokers, not just the usual 2 or 3 - you nearly caught us off guard there.

8. Thanks to Girv the Swerve for recapturing his form of last 3 seasons at just the opportune moment. It was a close run thing but cometh the hour, cometh the choker......

9. Thanks to Brown Thomas for cancelling the sale - at least there were some Leinster supporters in their home ground for their biggest challenge ever ( oops, nearly forgot about Perpignan 2003 - refresh my memory, wasn't that a 30 pointer as well? )

10.Trevor wants to thank Guy for the pass ( how can you have a guy called Guy on your team and expect to be taken seriously ?)

11. Ronan wants to thank ' Big Mal' for thinking we were playing tip rugby

12. Thanks to Reggie for his standard knock on in a promising attacking position - you can always rely on Reggie

13. We'd like to thank the fella in the second row with Mal for not turning up at all - another super Leinster Southern Hemisphere investment - does anyone know his name or if he actually touched the ball?

14. Thanks to Checks and Knoxy for getting the Leinster boys to actually believe that they could beat Munster - makes the victory all the sweeter!

15.FUCK ALL YOU D4 CUNTS I FUKIN LOVE IT MAYBE NEXT YEAR!!


TO THE FAITHFUL AND THE BRAVE, NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE