There's a point during one of Missouri's pre-game hype videos where fans are treated to a snippet of Al Pacino's "inch-by-inch" speech from Any Given Sunday.
In said speech, Pacino's character, a football coach, talks about the importance of fighting for every inch on the football field and in life. (But we're not talking about life, so forget that part.) Toward the end of the monologue, he says, "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 [naughty word] difference between winning and losing.