The arena was bustling with hundreds of fans…the air was electric…hearts were throbbing...it was pandemonium out there…
Although a few feet away there was absolute hush…a dead zone…it was the dressing room of the home team…the coach was about to say the final words before the match…this ladies and gentlemen was the finale to the world cup football match…
This is what he said…
“In three minutes we’ll walk into the biggest combat of our lives…it 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 are over and done with…
We are in hell right now gentlemen…believe me…and…we can stay here…or we can fight back…into the light…we climb out of hell…one inch at a time…now I cannot do it for u…am too old…I look around and I see these young faces…I mean I have made every wrong choice any middle aged man can make…I was frivolous with my money…believe it or not….I chased off anybody who ever treasured me…and recently I cannot even stand the facade I see in the mirror…you know when u get old in life…things get taken from u…that’s part of life…u find out life is a game of inches…in either game…life or football the periphery for inaccuracy is too miniature…I mean…one half a stride too late or too early…and you do not quite make it…one half a second too slow – too fast…you do not quite catch it…
The inches we need are universally around us…they are in every break of the game…every minute…every second…we have to wrestle for that inch…we have to shred ourselves and everyone else around us to pieces for that inch…we have to claw with our fingernails…for that inch…because we know that when we add up all those inches…that is going to make the distinction between winning and losing…between living and dying…
I’ll tell you this...in any fight…it’s the guy whose prepared to die…whose going to win that inch…and I know that if I am going to have any life anymore it’s because I am willing to live and die for that inch…because that is what living is…”
Life is a battle…every corner brings with itself a new challenge, a new battle…
In these tough times let us be strong and win those precious inches…
Cheers!!!
