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

Flying Coach With Sean McVay and Peter Schrager

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Sports

4.6 • 855 Ratings

🗓️ 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 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 Kitchen,
0:04.4	Help the Heroes and Hospitals and Clinics were fighting for us and help keep your local restaurants alive.
0:09.2	Go to the Ringer.com slash W.K to donate please. If you have the means it's an unbelievably great
0:14.6	and useful cause that helps our hospital heroes, emergency workers, and local
0:17.8	restaurants. Give whatever you can the money goes directly to the world Central
0:21.2	Kitchen. It's a charitable donation once again, that is the
0:23.6	Ringer.com slash W.K. We started flying coach to raise money for the Warriors
0:29.6	Community Foundation and the Seahawks Charitable Foundation.
0:34.2	But as a thank you to all the frontline workers for COVID-19,
0:37.0	P Carroll and his company compete to create are offering a free online course and high performance
0:41.3	mindset coincidentally called
0:43.0	Warrior's Edge, you can find it by going to his website at compete to create.net
0:48.4	backslash Warrior's Edge, he'll be available for free for anyone working with COVID-19 through the end of
0:54.6	2020 in general the course is an incredible insider look into Pete's philosophy
0:58.8	culture and leadership a lot of the stuff we talk about on this podcast
1:01.6	coming up Steve Kerr, Pete Carroll, we've got a fantastic guest on today.
1:26.0	Author, fellow podcaster, father, and I believe, maybe even a basketball coach to his son I don't know I'm gonna have to find that one out Michael Lewis joining us Michael
1:38.8	Thanks for coming on. It's nice you to have me so Michael's up, Michael? Hey Pete.
1:43.0	Are you a coach?
1:44.0	Do you coach your son?
1:45.8	So I coached all the kids.
1:47.0	My kids are now 21, 18, and 13.
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