Anxiety plays an important role in sports. It is an essential ingredient of any competitive situation. Without certain level of anxiety, there cannot be competitive performance. Adequate level of anxiety produces best result in sports with the help of sports psychology. The threshold of anxiety level differs from athlete to athlete and from situation to situation in the same athlete. Whether in life or in sports anxiety is known to play an important role as a negative factor. We must learn variety of defence mechanism or resorting to certain psychic and somatic relaxation techniques. Unless athletes learn how to cope with stressful and competitive situations and manage anxiety with or without assistance from coach, they would not be able to give outstanding performance.
