Small rituals like tying my shoelaces 20 times before a game as a way of focusing our game plan and how I would play, did the trick. Many athletes, including myself as an NFL player (1963 – 1969), were trying to get ourselves ‘right’ mentally: we called it getting our ‘psych on’.
Tim Gallwey and Robert Kriegel, a skiing coach and friend of Tim’s, followed up with their book, The Inner Game of Skiing in 1977. Athletes and coaches have always known there is an ‘inner game’ going on in athletes’ minds during their training and performance moments. His book The Inner Game of Tennis broke open the constricted, limited view and awareness of coaches and athletes. Tim Gallwey, Master tennis coach, first coined the term “inner game” in 1974.
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