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To: energyplay who wrote (22972)	3/31/2005 10:26:35 AM
From: kodiak_bull	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23153

Ep, I would disagree. Agassi has the right approach. Every day he plays in a match is a gift, and he is grateful. He commits himself totally to tennis because he is a champion. He comes to each match as well prepared physically, mentally and spiritually as he can, working his 34-year old body (oldest on the tour) through its paces, in total control over his mind and body. Andre recognizes that Tennis has been extremely good to him, and he wants to treat the game with the utmost respect. This aspect of gratitude is the single most important thing in sports or life, imho. It translates into respect and honor for the vocation one has chosen. Great champions are always grateful for the chance. Sandbaggers are always ingrates. Their attitude is, "Tennis owes me. I'm the star. I bring in the crowds. I'm entitled." The key to life (yes, Life) is to find something you have extreme passion for, something bigger than yourself, and then be grateful to have found it, pursue it with everything you have. All great people in every walk of life have discovered this. Halfway measures are for losers, real losers, not people who lose in straight sets, but people who haven't figured out exactly what Life is about. It's about passion and commitment. Now, you imply that if someone is passionate and committed to something they must be divorced, or likely to use drugs, or somehow be on the verge of breakdown. First of all, as to divorce: with the national divorce rate now over 50%, I think, there are other ways to think of divorce than as some sort of massive moral failing. Often divorce is the sign of success (Married the wrong person? You married when You were the wrong person? Are you capable of admitting a mistake and starting over? Etc.) rather than failure. In any event, it takes passion and commitment to succeed anywhere. The greatest failures I've seen were people who gave things half-efforts, muttering things like, "well, I think this'll do," or "This is probably good enough." Anytime a person finds himself settling for "good enough" he is agreeing to be a loser. Every important thing a person does (job, marriage, raising children, volunteering for the community, church life) needs to be done with passion and commitment. If it can't be, stop, back up the vehicle and find something that can be done with passion and commitment. This is Life, not just a Dress Rehearsal for it. (stepping off soapbox . . . ) Kb