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Tim Gallwey's book, The Inner Game of Tennis, has had a huge impact on Kerr. And he's not the only devotee — Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll is a huge fan and wrote the forward to a recent edition. Tom Brady, New England Patriots quarterback, has also posted quotes from the book on his Instagram.

This book offers key lessons for instances in which the anxious brain might sabotage whatever you are trying to accomplish, while helping readers understand how to stop their mind from getting in the way of their bodies.
WARRIORS COACH STEVE KERR PRAISES TIM GALLWEY'S INNER GAME
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Brady highlights a notable passage from a classic bestseller, surprisingly, about tennis. W. Timothy Gallwey's The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Side to the Mental Guide of Peak Performance was a phenomenon when it was published in 1972, mainly for its revolutionary take on overcoming the self-doubt, nervousness, and lapses of concentration that can keep a player from winning. As Gallwey wrote, Every game is composed of two parts, an outer game and an inner game. The former is played against opponents, and is filled with lots of contradictory advice; the latter is played within the mind of the player, and its principal obstacles are self-doubt and anxiety."
Brady highlights a notable passage from a classic bestseller, surprisingly, about tennis. W. Timothy Gallwey's The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Side to the Mental Guide of Peak Performance was a phenomenon when it was published in 1972, mainly for its revolutionary take on overcoming the self-doubt, nervousness, and lapses of concentration that can keep a player from winning. As Gallwey wrote, Every game is composed of two parts, an outer game and an inner game. The former is played against opponents, and is filled with lots of contradictory advice; the latter is played within the mind of the player, and its principal obstacles are self-doubt and anxiety."
TOM BRADY CREDITS THE INNER GAME OF TENNIS AFTER SUPERBOWL
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Many players receive books from coaches and toss them in the back of their locker. Others flip through them, dutifully. Kerr read “Inner Game”, then read it again, taking notes. He was hooked.

The book’s basic concept is simple: Our brains often screw up what our bodies are perfectly capable of doing on their own “If you ever watch a tennis player, a lot of them will talk to themselves, explains Kerr. “[Gallwey] was a tennis teacher and he was watching his student one day and thought to himself, ‘Who is he talking to?’ It’s kind of weird if you actually stop and think about it. You’re talking to yourself, right? So does that mean there are two yous?”
COACH STEVE KERR QUOTES TIM GALLWEY'S THE INNER GAME OF TENNIS
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The source that Carroll cites most often in crediting the inspiration of his coaching habits is Timothy Gallwey’s The Inner Game of Tennis, which is about tennis only in some ways. Although tennis is Gallwey’s chosen craft, it’s easy to see how Carroll found it applicable to football–or indeed, how it can be applicable to anybody’s own ventures in life. Although there are a few tennis-specific chapters here and there that invite skimming for the non-player, The Inner Game of Tennis is a vessel for Gallwey’s teachings on “the art of relaxed concentration.” And, whatever you’re doing right now, doesn’t a place of relaxed concentration sound like a beautiful place to be?
COACH PETE CARROLL ON THE INNER GAME OF TENNIS
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