Winning Matters, Being The Best You Can Be By Sean Fitzpatrick
Winning Matters, Being The Best You Can Be
The Uncompromising Blueprint of Leadership, High-Performance Mentalities, and All Black Mastery
The Uncompromising Blueprint of Leadership, High-Performance Mentalities, and All Black Mastery
Bibliographic Specifications
- Title: Winning Matters: Being The Best You Can Be
- Author: Sean Fitzpatrick
- Publisher: Penguin Group (South Africa)
- Publication Date: 2011
- ISBN-10: 0143565901
- ISBN-13: 9780143565901
- Edition Details: First South African Softcover Edition, First Printing.
- Binding: Original publisher's premium illustrated heavy-gauge card wrappers (paperback).
- Physical Format: Octavo (8vo), 288 pages. Generously enhanced with exclusive inner strategies, dynamic motivational paradigms, and performance-tracking frameworks mapping corporate and sporting mechanics.
- Language: English
Official Condition Report
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The Book: Used - Good (G)
- Exterior / Wraps: The original softcover trade wrappers are structurally solid and sound, holding their uniform shape beautifully. Face panels and margins show standard, minor shelf-rubbing and characteristic vintage edge wear from past reading. The book remains well-kept, clean, and highly presentable.
- Interior: The text block is defined by an excellent, highly secure, and pristine original binding. The internal pages are entirely free of user underlying, permanent gift inscriptions, library processing stamps, or dealer pencil markings. Natural tanning/browning is uniformly present across the leaf margins, entirely typical of the domestic paper stock utilized during this era.
- Preservation Status: This copy comes safely wrapped and protected with a premium Cellophane sleeve, keeping the wrappers safe from future handling while offering a very neat profile on a collector's shelf.
- The Dust Jacket: Not Applicable (As Issued)
Synopsis & Historical Value
Published in 2011, Winning Matters is a fascinating, high-stakes blueprint born from the professional reflections of one of global sports history's most ruthless and feared leaders: Sean Fitzpatrick. During an illustrious international career spanning 1986 to 1997, Fitzpatrick anchored the New Zealand All Blacks across 128 total matches—setting a historic standard with 92 Test caps, a world-first tournament victory at the inaugural 1987 Rugby World Cup, and a record-shattering 51 Tests as national captain.
Bypassing standard, comfortable sports boastfulness, this volume explores the raw, uncompromising mindset required to conquer the planet. Fitzpatrick strips down his aggressive, devious, and compelling on-field persona—where he operated as a literal one-man wrecking machine—and translates those elite behaviors into everyday strategies. Part autobiography, part psychological self-help guide, and part corporate business manual, the text focuses on the core values, intense beliefs, and everyday principles needed to build high-performance teams. This collectible copy stands as a vital primary historical source and an inspiring guide for corporate managers, sports purists, and biography collectors aiming to be the best they can be.
Author Profile: Sean Fitzpatrick
Sean Fitzpatrick ONZM is an international rugby union legend, a former World Cup winner, and widely considered one of the greatest hookers and captains to ever grace the sport. Renowned globally for his tactical maturity, unbreakable physical resilience, and a psychological drive that permanently redefined the All Black legacy, he memorably captained New Zealand to their first-ever historic Test series victory on South African soil in 1996.
Following his retirement from elite international play, Fitzpatrick transitioned into a highly influential global icon, operating as a premier TV sports commentator, high-performance corporate consultant, and an elite motivational speaker. As a founder and leading executive chairman of the Laureus World Sports Academy, his deep understanding of leadership architecture and organizational mechanics ensures his literature cuts through traditional clichés, providing readers with an authoritative, definitive record of sports psychology.
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