Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness by Tim S. Grover - Non Fiction - Paperback

Details
Condition: Brand New
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781398501942
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Age Range: Adult

Overview
Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness is the third book in Tim Grover's bestselling Winning Series, following Relentless and Jump Attack. Written with Shari Wenk, it distills the no-nonsense mindset Grover used to coach Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, and Dwyane Wade into 13 key principles anyone can apply. Blunt, motivational, and refreshingly free of feel-good platitudes, it challenges readers to confront what winning actually demands. Perfect for athletes, entrepreneurs, and anyone chasing peak performance, this paperback edition delivers Grover's signature tough-love coaching philosophy in a compact, highly quotable format.

About the Book
For more than two decades, Tim Grover has trained some of the most dominant competitors in sports history, and in Winning he turns that hard-won expertise toward a universal question: what separates those who merely succeed from those who truly win? Co-written with longtime collaborator Shari Wenk, the book rejects easy inspiration in favor of unflinching honesty about sacrifice, discomfort, and relentless self-accountability. Grover lays out 13 distinct principles, each built around real stories from his decades working courtside with legends like Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, and Dwyane Wade, alongside lessons drawn from business leaders and everyday high achievers. The tone is deliberately provocative, pushing back against a culture of participation trophies and comfortable mediocrity. Readers are asked to examine their own excuses, their tolerance for pain, and their willingness to be disliked in pursuit of a goal. Chapters are short and punchy, designed to be reread and referenced rather than consumed once and shelved. Grover draws a hard line between "winners," "wannabes," and "want-to-be winners," a framework he introduced in his earlier bestseller Relentless and sharpens further here. The result is less a traditional self-help book than a candid field manual from someone who has spent his career in the room with the most competitive people on the planet. It's a natural next read for fans of Relentless and anyone drawn to high-performance, mental-toughness literature spanning sports, business, and personal ambition.

Key Benefits

• Written by the elite performance coach behind Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, and Dwyane Wade
• Delivers 13 clear, actionable principles for high performance under pressure
• Blunt, no-excuses coaching style distinct from typical feel-good self-help books
• Brand-new paperback edition, easy to carry, annotate, and reread
• Ideal for athletes, entrepreneurs, students, and anyone chasing ambitious goals
• Companion read to Grover's earlier bestseller Relentless

About the Author
Tim S. Grover is a renowned performance coach who has trained some of the greatest athletes in history, including Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, and Dwyane Wade, building a career on relentless, no-excuses coaching methods. He is the author of the international bestseller Relentless and runs Attack Athletics, a performance training company based in Chicago. Shari Wenk is a writer and collaborator who has co-authored multiple books with Grover, helping translate his coaching philosophy into accessible, motivational prose for a broad readership of athletes, business leaders, and general readers.

Why You'll Love This Book
Blunt, energizing, and free of empty motivational fluff, Winning is a must-read for anyone craving real talk about ambition and achievement. It makes a sharp gift for graduations, new jobs, promotions, or any back-to-school or New Year's resolution reading list.

Please Note: This is the UK edition with the ISBN as listed; the cover may vary slightly from the image shown.