Skills can be easily learned if you have the good character attributes that lead to success in all things (in this case learning a skill) while avoiding the bad character attributes at all costs. Good character attributes are not skills and are not as easily gained or held on to. But developing the good character attributes required for success has benefits because part of the gravy in this quest is that you learn and gain skills. Skills will never ever make you successful, as so many losers with skills will attest, but good character attributes always will. Good character attributes can only to success and nothing else. Skills can make you the worst criminal in history.

The measure of ones success in life is not to found in their tennis skills or championships but in their personal character attributes that they have acquired use and pass on to future generations.

The greatest and most difficult of these to gain, have and hold dear is generosity. Andre could have won every tennis match he ever played and been the biggest failure of all if he had not become a philanthropist in the end - one who gives what ever they have to others, expecting nothing in return. He knows what is important and it is not tennis.

Sadly, our schools only teach the less important stuff in life - skills. It is up to parents and mentors to make sure that their children learn to be fair, decent and honest, kind, persistent, determined, generous and the hundred other good character attributes one must have for success in order to gain what ever skills your life requires.

Fear, pride and ego are the only bad character attributes that lead to failure in all things and to be avoided as if your life depends on it - because it does.

Where was Agassi born?

Obama proves you don't have to be born here to be president.