The meaning and importance of sports psychology: According to John Luther, “Sports psychology is an area which attempts to apply psychological facts and principles to learning performance and associated human behaviour in whole field of sports.” According to Clerk and Clark, “sports psychology is an applied psychology”.
It is more concerned with the personalities, emotional or motivational aspects of sports and physical activities. It employs many of the techniques used in psychology.” It is a well-known fact that in the field of sports, the sports psychology and sports bio-mechanism have achieved a very high level and the scope for further development seems to be less.