Halftime speeches are great in movies, but not when talking pro football
by Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times
Jan 29, 2018
4 minutes
The famous coach paces at one wall of the locker room, and his football players sit quietly, awaiting his sermon. Cameras capture it all.
"You'll find out, life's a game of inches - so is football," the coach says in his familiar raspy voice. "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-step too slow or too fast, and you don't quite catch it. The inches we need are everywhere around us. They're in every break in the game, every minute, every second ...
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