Books for the Mental Game

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Title	Author	Comments	Click on image to buy
Golf is Not a Perfect Game	Bob Rotella	Replace "club" with "leg", and this book makes an excellent teaching tool for the mental game of kicking
Zen Mind, Beginners Mind	Shunryu Suzuki	Very deep reading - must be read several times
The Miracle of Mindfulness	Thich Nhat Hahn	A simple yet insightful book worth reading
Zen and the Art of Archery	Eugene Herrigel	Great analogy for kicking. I have read it 5 times.
Zen in the Martial Arts	Joe Hyams	Not as good as Archery, but worth checking out
Sadaharu Oh	Sadaharu Oh & David Falkner	A great autobiography by an inspirational man
Thinking Body, Dancing Mind	Chungliang Al Huang	One of my all-time favorites
Creative Visualization	Ronald Shone	Pretty good at teaching visualization techniques
Sports Psyching	Thomas Tutko & Umberto Tosi	Best introduction to the mental game
The Ultimate Athlete	George Leonard	Very interesting - philosophical not instructional