From Olympic golf medals through F1 and to the World Cup(s), the contributors have been to the pinnacle of their sports, both to win and to actually go beyond expectations. Its a book which contains advice and methods invaluable to both coaches and players and athletes, firstly perhaps through a complete read-through, then with a regular browse or through noting sections and pages of particular interest.

Mind Games does not seek to inspire by taking a reader through a single individual or team's specific achievements and how they got to that point in a series of pages or a chapter. There are contrasts throughout (from one sport to another - person to person) so that you can take in commonality and diversity producing the same level of performance. The inspiration comes from knowing a lot more about what each sports star or coach was actually thinking about as the achieved the levels that we remember them for, and when that achievement is very special, its memories which we can recall so easily.

Sports stars are icons to us much more than the celebrity culture production line so even for the non-competitive reader, Mind Games will entertain and inform - think a biography of a sports star just looking at the really important bits, how they actually won. For the golfer who wants to know more about the whole aspect of how to understand and then use psychology to improve their game, its a must.

For the already using how to control their thoughts, Mind Games will take their knowledge further and having talked to a number of psychologists for interview, they probably already have copies as considered reading (i.e. they will be digesting every vowel). You can become a complete devotee (to mind training) but when a number of the stories that are recounted by the stars interviewed for this book do state that there is a limit to how much a sports person can control what is going to happen. Sport is about life, it has ups and downs and its about desire .... Excellent book - buy it!

PS - psyching out your opponent is against the spirit of golf so do avoid considering the strutting stuff that the sprinters get up to - you will be banned if you try any of their tricks.