If South Africa make it to the cup final tomorrow - their captain, Kyle Brown, will not have to look far for motivation. One word, repeated three times will do the trick. 'Focus, focus, focus.'
With that impassioned cry the course of South Africa's history was changed in 1995 and president Nelson Mandela and Springbok captain Francois Pienaar became heroes of the 'Rainbow Nation' and have since been immortalised in the movie Invictus.
Rugby has the power to do many things including effect social change, as South Africa experienced on that momentous day in Johannesburg 15 years ago when the Springboks beat the All Blacks in the World Cup and united a nation, thanks to mastermind Mandela.
Another former Bok captain Bobby Skinstad, who is back in Hong Kong for the Sevens, has some ambivalence about the dramatic representation of the World Cup, but believed Invictus has taken the sport to a wider audience.
'I think it's a fairly accurate, if not a slightly romanticised view of the power of sport,' says Skinstad, the veteran of 42 tests. 'The story of South Africa winning that day against the virtually undefeated All Blacks against all odds almost does have an element of Hollywood unbelievability about it. It is incredible though that we won.
'The movie has allowed that time in our history to strike a chord with a wider audience. It is somewhat bizarre seeing this story Africans lived through released at the same time as Avatar. Both have an incredible plot, story and theme though. I hope the movie will help create awareness that Africa is not one great amorphous mass. It's many countries with many stories.'