How a Book About Tennis Changed Everything, and How ‘Moneyball’ and ‘The Blind Side’ Influenced Sports With Michael Lewis

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🗓️ 15 May 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Steve and Pete are joined by author Michael Lewis ('Moneyball,' 'The Blind Side,' and 'The Big Short') to talk about how he gets the ideas for his books, and the background story of ‘The Blind Side’ and how it influenced the NFL’s view on the left tackle position. They discuss how advancements in technology are affecting sports and whether or not a coach can change a player's natural ability. Finally they discuss the extraordinary influence of Timothy Gallwey‘s book ‘The Inner Game of Tennis.’ Hosts: Steve Kerr and Pete Carroll Guest: Michael Lewis This show is raising money for COVID-19 relief. You can help! Donate here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today's episode of Flying Coach on the Ringer Podcast Network brought to you by World Central
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0:13.3	means, it's an unbelievably great and useful cause that helps our hospital heroes, emergency
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0:21.2	Kitchen. It's a charitable donation once again. That is the ringer.com slash WCK. We started
0:27.3	Flying Coach to raise money for the Warriors Community Foundation and the Seahawks Charitable Foundation.
0:33.9	But as a thank you to all the frontline workers for COVID-19, Pete Carolyn is company
0:37.8	compete to create or offering a free online course and high performance mindset. Quinn's
0:42.1	done they called Warriors Edge. You can find it by going to his website at competeacreat.net
0:48.4	backslashwheresedge. It will be available for free for anyone working with COVID-19.
0:53.8	Through the end of 2020 in general, the course is an incredible insider look into Pete's
0:58.3	philosophy culture and leadership. A lot of the stuff we talk about on this podcast coming up.
1:03.0	Steve Kerr. Pete Carroll. Flying Coach.
1:06.2	All right. Welcome to the Flying Coach podcast. Steve Kerr, Pete Carroll and Pete, we've got a fantastic
1:24.2	guest on today. Author, fellow podcaster, father and I believe maybe even a basketball coach
1:34.0	to his son. I don't know. I'm going to have to find that one out. Michael Lewis joining us.
1:38.4	Michael, thanks for coming on. It's nice to have him. So Michael,
1:41.9	Hey Pete, are you a coach? Do you coach your son? So I coached all the kids. My kids are now
1:47.9	21, 18 and 13 and all of them basically rebelled at the item you coaching at about the age of 12.
1:57.9	And the better they were, the less they wanted me in their coaching, in their coaching,
2:04.4	they all sense like it was like going to a doctor and you know he doesn't actually have a degree.
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