Mental Toughness for Basketball

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Free Excerpts from other Mental Toughness Books

To read an excerpt from and reviews of each book, click on the title below. You will be taken to the Amazon.com website on a page with information about the book. Under the icon of the book, click on "seach inside this book" to see excerpts from the book. Clicking on the white arrows on the side of the excerpt will scroll to the next page.

Basketball Fundamentals: A Complete Mental Training Guide by Jay Mikes

The Inner Game of Golf by W. Timothy Gallwey. It has several applications to the mental approach for any sport. 

We have a blog post with some thoughts on poise

Dr. Alan Goldberg has put together The Competitive Advantage web site. It has free mental training resources for several sports, including an article devoted to mental toughness for basketball. The site has several free resources for coaches, players, and parents. Dr. Goldberg was the sport psychology consultant to the 1999 NCAA Men’s Basketball National Champion University of Connecticut Huskies, and the 2000 men’s soccer NCAA champions.

Some other great FREE resource sections on the site are:

This site is a great source of mental toughness information!