Hockey is a dynamic team game played by both sex requiring high level of skill, excellent conditioning and well co-ordinate team effort. Modern Hockey demands that all the players should be adapted to all the situations whether defending or attacking. Hockey is a game which calls for strenuous, continuous, thrilling action and therefore attracts the youth all over the world. Study was to investigate the effect of mental training on selected motor performance and skill performance variables among novice hockey players. For the purpose of the present investigation thirty (N=30) novice players were selected randomly from YMCA College of physical education, Chennai. For this study the researcher had gone through literature and guidance from various experts, the following variables which had selected. The obtained data from the experimental group was statistically analyzed by using independent’s’ test to find out the significant improvement between the pre and post-test mean values. The level of confidence was fixed at 0.05 levels to test the hypothesis. The results of the present study indicate that, the experimental group had significantly improved the selected motor performance variables and skill performance variables among no voice field hockey players. It is inferred from the above literatures and the results of the present study that systematically designed mental training exercises will develop the performance standard as the selected motor performance and skill performance variables. Hence, it is concluded from the results of the present study that systematically and scientifically designed mental training exercises may give due recognition and be implemented properly in the training programmes of all the disciplines in order to achieve maximum performance.