Education and Linguistics Research ISSN 2377-1356 2016, Vol. 2, No. 1 http://elr.macrothink.org 19 An Analysis of the Components of Sport Imagery in Basketball Players Nishan Singh Deol Department of Physical Education, Punjabi University, Patiala, India Davinder Singh Department of Physical Education, D.A.V. College, Amritsar, India Tel: 91-98558-10848 E-mail: ds_rajput87@yahoo.in Received: November 6, 2015 Accepted: January 17, 2016 Published: January 18, 2016 doi:10.5296/elr.v2i1.8894 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/elr.v2i1.8894 Abstract The present study was aimed to indentify the role of Sport Imagery in performance of basketball players. For this purpose, sixty female basketball players of 19 to 25 years of age were selected. They were divided into three groups; (i.e., N 1 =20; District, N 2 =20; State and N 3 =10 National). To determine level of Sport Imagery among subjects, Sport Imagery Questionnaire, constructed by Hall et al. (1998) was administered. One Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was employed to compare the three groups of basketball. For testing the hypotheses, the level of significance was set at 0.05. Conculdingly from the findings that we can say that significant differences were found among female basketball players (District, State and National) on the sub-variables of Sport Imagery. Keywords: Sport imagery, Basketball players 1. Introduction Empirical Research Findings shows that Imagery is a part of Sport Psychology Skill, where it effect to athletes to success in their tournament or game. Murphy and Martin (2002), said imagery that have better in relationship between imagery ability and sport performance. Sport imagery can be defined as using all sense to recreate or create a sport experience in the mind with the goal of enhancing sport performance during training and competition (Morris et al., 2005; Taylor & Wilson, 2005; Weinberg & Gould, 2007). The athlete's use of an internal versus external imagery point of view is also connected with sport performance (Gould et al.,