Leigh Steinberg is renowned as one of the greatest sports agents in history, representing such All-Pro clients as Troy Aikman, Bruce Smith, and Ben Roethlisberger. Over one particular seven-year stretch, Steinberg represented the top NFL Draft pick an unheard of six times. Director Cameron Crowe credits Steinberg as a primary inspiration for the titular character in Jerry Maguire, even hiring Steinberg as a consultant on the film. Lightyears ahead of his contemporaries, he expanded his players’ reach into entertainment. Already the bestselling author of a business book on negotiation, the original superagent is now taking readers behind the closed doors of professional sports, recounting priceless stories, like how he negotiated a $26.5 million package for Steve Young―the biggest ever at the time―and how he passed on the chance to represent Peyton Manning.

Beginning with his early days as a student leader at Berkeley, Steinberg details his illustrious rise into pro sports fame, his decades of industry dominance, and how he overcame a series of high-profile struggles to regain his sobriety and launch his comeback. This riveting story takes readers inside the inner circle of top-notch agents and players through the visionary career of Leigh Steinberg, the pre-eminent superagent of our time.

Leigh Steinberg is the premier agent in sports. He has negotiated over $2 billion in contracts for the athletes he represents–who include Troy Aikman, Steve Young, Drew Bledsoe, Kordell Stewart, and Warren Moon–but he has also spent twenty-four years as a sports agent living by a strict personal and professional code of ethics. Steinberg’s philosophy of ethical dealings and responsibility is well known in the sports world–and well known to moviegoers as well, because Steinberg’s way of doing business was a model for Cameron Crowe’s wildly successful film Jerry Maguire and the “manifesto” of business ethics that was the premise of the film.

Steinberg has always believed that negotiation is about more than the bottom line: the most successful business dealings are not always the ones that pay the most; they are about balance, perspective, objectivity, and values. A success in business must also be a success in one’s own life. And in his book, Steinberg shares the secrets of successful negotiation, breaking the process down into the essential steps, from “Orientation” through “Making the Deal,” and giving step-by-step practical and inspirational advice that will get any two people or parties, in any situation, to come to terms.

Full of great inside sports stories and characters, Winning with Integrity is an intelligent, insightful, and inspiring guide to the art of negotiation in business and in life–from the most successful businessman in sports.

“It’s fashionable now, after the movie, for a lot of agents to talk about heart, but Leigh was the only one talking like that in 1993, when I began research.”

–Cameron Crowe, director of Jerry Maguire