Football Quotes by Michael Lewis

11 Football quotes by Michael Lewis

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Lewis brings his analytical eye to the field in eleven short pieces, each one dissecting a facet of the game. This compact set works well for a quick, thoughtful glance at football’s inner workings.

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“Losing shouldn’t be fun. It’s not fun for me. If I’m going to be miserable, you’re going to be miserable.”

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“The author refers to a player's affected nonchalance and comments he is, "too young to realize you are what you pretend to…

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The arrangement bore the same relation to actual finance as fantasy football bears to the NFL.

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“From the snap of the ball to the snap of the first bone is closer to four seconds than to five. and…

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The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns…

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“What I learned playing basketball at Ole Miss," he said, "was what not to do: beat up a kid. It's easy to…

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“He’d played sports in high school, and then proved that a young man with the build of St. Francis of Assisi could…

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“People who want very badly to win, and to be seen to have won, enjoy a tactical advantage over people who don’t.…

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“Daryl Morey believed—if he believed in anything—in taking a statistically based approach to decision making. And the most important decision he made…

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“In the book “The Blind Side” they are talking about the most important job in the NFL (Lewis). The most important job…

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“What John Ayers was doing seemed routine. But to the few who knew, and watched, it was a thing of beauty. The…

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“The great thing about baseball players, from the point of view of personal hygiene, is how seldom they break a sweat.”

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A banking system is an act of faith: it survives only for as long as people believe it will.

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“No longer were the prices of ordinary mortgage bonds allowed to roam inefficiently, for they were now linked to the CMO market, in much…

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“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…

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