Mind Games: Inspirational Lessons from the World's Finest Sports Stars - Softcover

Mind Games looks into the mental processes of sports stars, identifying the attitudes and approaches that enable them to achieve peak performance, every time. It reveals the mental characteristics that make some people come out on top. It shows how winners channel adrenalin into controlled power while losers choke. It explains what sportsmen and women mean when they talk about ‘the inner game’ and being ‘in the zone’. And it shows how you can use these techniques in your own life to get to where you want to be.

Jeff Grout and Sarah Perrin draw on extensive first-hand experiences, identifying personal techniques used by coaches and athletes proven to have worked under the pressure of top-level competition.

Get into the minds of these major names:

• Sir Clive Woodward OBE, England rugby coach
• Sven-Göran Eriksson, England football coach
• Matthew Pinsent, rower, three times Olympic gold medallist
• Jonny Wilkinson, England rugby fly-half, arguably the world’s best kicker
• Sally Gunnell, former Olympic, World, Commonwealth and European 400m hurdles champion
• Ellen MacArthur, fastest woman to sail around the world single-handed
• Roger Black, 4 x 400m World Champion and Olympic silver medallist
• Nick Faldo, Britain’s most successful golfer
• Dr Stephanie Cook, Olympic and World modern pentathlon champion

...and many more.

Your mind dictates whether you fulfil your potential or live your life dreaming. In sport it can make the difference between winning and losing. Mind Games reveals the techniques the world’s biggest sports stars use to cross the line first, score the most points and outwit their opponents.

Jeff Grout and Sarah Perrin draw on extensive first-hand experiences, identifying personal techniques used by coaches and athletes proven to have worked under the pressure of top-level competition. Get into the minds of sporting champions such as Matthew Pinsent, Ellen MacArthur, Nick Faldo, Sir Clive Woodward, Sally Gunnell, Jonny Wilkinson and Roger Black.

The lessons of these sporting heroes are applicable in any area of life, whether you want to be a better parent, achieve more at work or fulfil a lifelong ambition. The mind can be a great ally or a great obstacle. Mind Games shows how the sporting greats have harnessed its potential. Apply their lessons and you’ll find a world of possibility opening up to you.

Life is a mind game. Success is in the head.