“What I learned playing basketball at Ole Miss," he said, "was what not to do: beat up a kid. It's easy to… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“He’d played sports in high school, and then proved that a young man with the build of St. Francis of Assisi could… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
The arrangement bore the same relation to actual finance as fantasy football bears to the NFL. — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“From the snap of the ball to the snap of the first bone is closer to four seconds than to five. and… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“Losing shouldn’t be fun. It’s not fun for me. If I’m going to be miserable, you’re going to be miserable.” — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“The author refers to a player's affected nonchalance and comments he is, "too young to realize you are what you pretend to… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“People who want very badly to win, and to be seen to have won, enjoy a tactical advantage over people who don’t.… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“Daryl Morey believed—if he believed in anything—in taking a statistically based approach to decision making. And the most important decision he made… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“In the book “The Blind Side” they are talking about the most important job in the NFL (Lewis). The most important job… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“What John Ayers was doing seemed routine. But to the few who knew, and watched, it was a thing of beauty. The… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“Crucial decisions are made, today as thousands of years ago, in terms of the intuitive guesses and preferences of a few men in positions… — Michael Lewis Copy Share
“You saw someone who reminded you of you, and then you looked for the reasons why you liked him. The” — Michael Lewis Copy Share
“At other places management says, ‘Well, gee, fellas, do we really want to bet the ranch on this deal?’ Lewie was not only willing… — Michael Lewis Copy Share
“BILLY WOULD SAY later that his wife left him because she was unnerved by his intensity—that she could even see it in his hands… — Michael Lewis Copy Share
“The great thing about baseball players, from the point of view of personal hygiene, is how seldom they break a sweat.” — Michael Lewis Copy Share
There was but one question he left unasked, and it vibrated between his lines: if gross miscalculations of a person's value could occur on… — Michael Lewis Copy Share
“The author refers to a player's affected nonchalance and comments he is, "too young to realize you are what you pretend to be.” — Michael Lewis Copy Share
A banking system is an act of faith: it survives only for as long as people believe it will. — Michael Lewis Copy Share
Some coaches believed they could judge a player's performance simply by watching it. In this they were deeply mistaken. The naked eye was an… — Michael Lewis Copy Share
“No longer were the prices of ordinary mortgage bonds allowed to roam inefficiently, for they were now linked to the CMO market, in much… — Michael Lewis Copy Share
“The difference between Strauss and Ranieri?” says one trader still at Salomon. “That’s easy. Strauss wouldn’t stoop to use the men’s room on the… — Michael Lewis Copy Share
“The only inexplicable aspect of the process was that economic theory (which is, after all, what economics students were supposed to know) served almost… — Michael Lewis Copy Share
“It's not easy to stand apart from mass hysteria - to believe that most of what's in the financial news is wrong, to believe… — Michael Lewis Copy Share
“Someone out there was using the fact that stock market orders arrived at different times at different exchanges to front-run orders from one market… — Michael Lewis Copy Share
