Champion Minded: Achieving Excellence in Sports and Life Paperback – September 7, 2017

Excellent book! Highly recommend to anyone playing sports. Great for those in management roles as well.

I recommend this book to any competitive athlete.I first heard of Allistair years ago from a sport psychologist friend of mine on facebook. I loved the material on his facebook page, and I actually printed out many of his McCaw Method lines and pasted them on my apartment walls. I was psyched when he finally came out with a book for athletes, and I was not disappointed.The content is great, and there's a lot of food for thought. I'm not gonna go into too much detail here, but for one, if you have attitude issues, this book will point them out. It might not be nice, but as long as you have a willingness to improve, it'll be a great help to have those things pointed out to you.For example, I am battling with waking up early. I used to do it well, but a couple of months ago I lost my routine, and have been struggling with it since. I also didn't touch the book for a while either. I pick it up and it reminds me of a.m. ie attitude management. I'm working on waking up earlier now and once I fix my sleeping rhythm I'll hold on to it for dear lifeThere were many things also in the book that I had not given any thought.Just a great book, with surprisingly much content, I couldn't believe how much there was in here.I can highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to go far in life. A Champion Mindset is an invaluable tool.

What a solid perspective on life training for athletes and coaches in all their endeavors both during competition and in their personal growth out side of sport. We used Champion Minded during our HS tennis season last year and the results were incredible. At the end of most of our practices I would pick a player and have them open the book to a random chapter to read to the team. It was incredibly engaging and made some really great connections with all kinds of kids. Not to mention the coaches. Really Fantastic how it addressed so many of their individual needs wthout me pushing the info. So amazing! I have never had kids remind me to do book study before introducing Champion Minded. At more than one practice we had players ask to read when I wasn't planning on it. What an amzing coaching tool! I highly recommend this book to any one who is working on being more Champion-minded. Thak you Allistair!

This book is a must-read for all athletes, as well as anybody else who is involved in sports.It is well written, the chapters flow easily, and the advice is clear and concise. You can start putting the tips into practice now. Not tomorrow or when you finish the book, but literally as soon as you read the first chapter. Some advice may seem repetitive, but I suspect it's only because the author wants to drill some things into our head.One chapter in particular, about goals vs purpose, gave me pause, and made me literally rethink my life. I am not a professional athlete, but a lot of the advice in this book applies to all of us. It's not only about building skills for a successful career in sports. It's about building skills for a successful life. So go ahead and read the book, and even if you commit to apply only a coupe of these tips, you will be committing to improving yourself.

We all have our go to books. This one and few others by Allistair are mine when it comes to working with kids on mental part of the game. Many great chapters within the book that relate to so many subjects that we deal with on daily basis. It's one thing for me to say or talk about "body language", but when it comes from others, like Allistair, it paints that picture that I might able to paint.Well written with short chapters but covers many areas of mental part of the game. MUST read

This book is for my son's 9th grade reading group project. I don't really have anything to report at this point

We had to standardize McCaw Method as part of our curriculum. We are not an academy. We are a determined family of four from the humble background of Lesotho. But after a video chat with McC (as we call him) we realised that Impossible is nothing!"It doesn't matter where you come from," A!#ChampionMinded is a complete reference to Excellence, High Performance, and sheer liberation of mind and soul from all the mental distractions.We developed 'Controllables Score Card' after learning from Allistair's posts even before this book was released. Now while our amazing tennis players worry about scores, we need them rate their Body Language, Humour, and Class (in accepting any results after giving their all).The A Class!

Started following Allistair McCaw on Social Media by way of colleague posts. When I found he had written a book, I immediately purchased it. One of the clearest and most insightful reads I have had in a very long time. While his method of delivery is through sports performance, the tools, tips, and lessons contained in his book are applicable to all aspects of life, family, parenting, and social interaction. As a coach of Division I Women's Gymnastics, I have implemented several of his concepts within our team culture, to complement what we already have in place, and it has shown huge results!Without reservation, I highly recommend purchasing this book. Don't just read it...absorb it!