Acclaimed sports psychologist Bob Rotella has advised everyone from professional golfers to NBA superstars to business executives on how to flourish under pressure and overcome challenges. "Rotella's philosophy is astonishingly simple...his success rate...is phenomenal" (The New York Times). Now, for the first time, he's distilled his decades of in-depth research and practical experience into a potential-unlocking guide for everyone, from businesspeople to athletes to parents. Most psychology is focused on trying to make abnormal people normal. Bob Rotella's work is to make normal people exceptional. How Champions Think takes readers inside the minds of winners in many fields. It explores how to keep the mind from holding you back, whatever your physical gifts or other talents. It's about how to make a commitment, how to persevere, how to deal with failure. It's about how to train your mind to create a self-image that promotes confidence and accomplishment. Any successful life starts with how you see yourself. And with these pearls of wisdom from the nation's preeminent sports psychologist, you can learn to achieve the success of your dreams. "Straightforward and simple...Do the math. Read Rotella" (The Wall Street Journal).

Dr. Bob Rotella is one of the hottest performance consultants in America today. Among his many professional clients are Nick Price (last year's Player of the Year), Tom Kite, Davis Love III, Pat Bradley, Brad Faxon, John Daly, and many others. Rotella, or "Doc," as most players refer to him, goes beyond just the usual mental aspects of the game and the reliance on specific techniques. What Rotella does here in this extraordinary book, and with his clients, is to create an attitude and a mindset about all aspects of a golfer's game, from mental preparation to competition. The most wonderful aspect of it all is that it is done in a conversational fashion, in a dynamic blend of anecdote and lesson. And, as some of the world's greatest golfers will attest, the results are spectacular. Golfers will improve their golf game and have more fun playing. Some of Rotella's maxims include:

* On the first tee, a golfer must expect only two things of himself: to have fun, and to focus his mind properly on every shot.
* Golfers must learn to love 'the challenge when they hit a ball into the rough, trees, or sand. The alternatives -- anger, fear, whining, and cheating -- do no good.
* Confidence is crucial to good golf. Confidence is simply the aggregate of the thoughts you have about yourself.
* It is more important to be decisive than to be correct when preparing to play any golf shot or putt.

Filled with delightful and insightful stories about golf and the golfers Rotella works with, Golf Is Not a Game of Perfect will improve the game of even the most casual weekend player.

From the author of the bestselling GOLF IS NOT A GAME OF PERFECT comes a masterly illumination of golf's mental game. When that book was published, Dr Bob Rotella made accessible for the first time what he had learned from working with the best golfers in the world. Dr Rotella follows up the success of GOLF IS NOT A GAME OF PERFECT with a book filled with anecdotes and motivational instruction focusing on the most important skill a golfer can have: the ability to think confidently. Filled with inspirational stories about the great players, great courses and great tournaments, GOLF IS A GAME OF CONFIDENCE encourages golfers, no matter what their level, to reach new heights in their games and their lives.

Bobby Jobe is a pro golfer whose swing is better than his attitude. When he bogies the last four holes and blows his lead in a major tournament -- again -- he berates his caddy, Henry "Greyhound" Mote. Jobe loses both Greyhound, who walks off the course, and the game. And before the day is out, he'll lose his eyesight to a lightning strike and his future in golf -- unless he can do what no one has ever done blind: make a comeback. Bob Cullen's funny and wise story, full of PGA lore, perfectly captures the mysterious and irresistible nature of the game of golf, not to mention, love, friendship, and life.

Dr Bob Rotella, author of half a dozen bestselling books on golf, including Golf Is Not a Game of Perfectbrings together his skills and years of experience as a golf psychologist to give listeners the insight they need to improve their game - before they ever step up to the tee. At some point in playing the sport, whether they're competing on the professional tour or enjoying a day with their foursome on any public course, every golfer hits a snag in their mental game. Dr Bob shows listeners how to emulate Tiger, become more comfortable with their own inner arrogance, how to learn from better golfers, and overcome fear. He teachers listeners easy ways to talk themselves into feeling confident and provides a detailed plan that anyone at any level can use to build self-esteem both on and off the course.

El Dr. Bob Rotella es hoy en dia uno de los asesores de juego de mayor prestigio en Estados Unidos. Entre sus numerosos clientes profesionales se encuentran Nick Price (nombrado Jugador del Ano, en 1994), Tom Kite, Davis Love III, Pat Bradley, Brad Faxon, John Daly y muchos mas. Rotella o 'Doc', como carinosamente le llama la mayoria de ellos, va mas alla de los conocidos aspectos mentales del juego y de la consolidacion de tecnicas especificas. Lo que Rotella consigue en este extraordinario libro, ademas de lo que logra con sus propios clientes, es crear una actitud y disposicion mental que abarcan todos los aspectos del juego del golf, desde la preparacion mental hasta la competicion. Y lo que es mas asombroso, lo consigue con un estilo coloquial y una combinacion variada de anecdotas y lecciones. Como atestiguan algunos de los mejores jugadores del mundo, los resultados son espectaculares. Los golfistas mejoraran su juego y se divertiran mas jugando al golf. Algunas de sus citas son: * En el primer tee, un golfista debe esperar solo dos cosas: divertirse y centrar de forma correcta su mente en cada golpe. * Un golfista debe aprender a aceptar el desafio cuando envia la bola al rough, a los arboles o al bunker. Las alternativas rabia, miedo, lamentaciones y trampas no solucionan nada. * La confianza es crucial para un buen golf. La confianza es simplemente la suma de pensamientos que tienes de ti mismo. * Es mas importante ser decidido que ser exacto cuando estas preparando cualquier golpe, especialmente un putt.