"Anybody can dream while their asleep, but you need to dream all the time, and say your dreams out loud, and believe in them". My youngest son and daughter have started playing tennis and it has been so fun to watch them and their passion for the sport develop, in watching them play, it has brought back some memories of other memorable tennis matches I watched and through that gave me the desire to read Andre's book. I remember watching him play but even more so, I remember following him in the news. In reading his book, I was quickly brought into his life and instead of his love for the game, his hatred. He had one of those classic love/hate relationship with the sport from an early age. His childhood couldn't be described as typical, because he didn't just play tennis, he lived tennis. His father's greatest desire was that Andre become number one and he didn't care what the cost, either financially or to Andre's self esteem. To say he was driven, would be an understatement. The pressure placed on his life from an early age taught him what doctor's told him as he moved through the pain in his career. "Pressure is how you know everything is working". Pressure, dreams, tennis, love, hate, life-all these terms so successfully placed throughout his life and his book allowed me to think about how my parenting may be affecting my kids, how my choices for their lives may be pressuring them. We all want our children to have every opportunity, to be number one, but in doing so, are we molding them into someone other than who God intended them to be? Are we taking something they love and turning into something they grow to hate? Andre Agassi had few opportunities to explore life outside the tennis court. It is my desire that whether on court or off a court, we will find our passions and allow ourselves to grow into them. Allow those passions to become our dreams and make every decision as if it were a Match Point.

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