“Train a child in the the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”

 ”..if you spend just one hour on the same activity everyday, in five years, you will become an expert at it…Joel Osteen (U.S. preacher)

Tiger Woods was just 18 months old when his father began giving him golf lessons, painstakingly talking him through the discipline and routine of putting (getting the golf ball into the hole) one of the game’s trickiest and most difficult skills to master. On June16 this year, Tiger Woods won the US Open, in a thrilling 19-hole play-off. He did it while undergoing intense pain in his kniee folowing an earlier surgery. No one knew the extent of the pain he endured in the tournament until it emerged that following the resulting damage to the knee; he would have to undergo reconstructive surgery and miss the rest of the season.

In similar fashion, the Williams sisters, became tennis icons, often appearing on both sides of the net in some of the most prestigiuous tournaments. But their story actually began before they were born. They were conceirved to play tennis as early as four-year-olds, had started practiviing for sic hours every day.

Warren Buffet opened his first savings account in a bank at the age of six with a $20 gift from his father. Over the next five years, he grew it to $120 and made his first investment at 11, buying three stocks for $114. Today, he is the world’s richest person, with a net worth of over $64 billion. Now over 70 years, he has been dealing in stocks and investments in the last six decades!

In February 2007, Akrit Jaswal an Indian miracle kid appeared on the Oprah Winfey show. Akrit is a child prodigy who has been termed a genious right after birht in 1993. He performed a successful medical surgery at age 7, read Shakespeare at age 3 and was admitted to Punjab University at 11, becoming the youngest student ever to attend an Indian University.

Federer was born in Basel, Switzerland, to Swiss-German Robert Federer and South African Lynette Federer (née Durand). He grew up in suburban Münchenstein, ten minutes from Basel and close to the borders of France and Germany. In addition to tennis, he also played football as a boy and considered becoming a professional footballer before deciding to pursue a career in tennis. He continues to support FC Basel, his hometown club and is a fan of Italian club AS Roma. Federer started playing tennis at the age of six.He began participating in group lessons at the age of nine and began weekly private coaching when he was ten. He also played football until the age of twelve when he decided to focus solely on tennis. At fourteen, he became the national champion of all groups in Switzerland and was chosen to train at the Swiss National Tennis Center in Ecublens. He joined the ITF junior tennis circuit in July 1996. In 1998, his final year as a junior, Federer won the junior Wimbledon title and the prestigious year-ending Orange Bowl. He was recognized as the ITF World Junior Tennis champion of the year.

Roger Federer; born August 8, 1981) is a Swiss professional tennis player, ranked World No. 1 for a record 232 consecutive weeks.Federer has won twelve Grand Slam singles titles (three Australian Open, five Wimbledon, four US Open), four Tennis Masters Cup titles, and fourteen ATP Masters Series titles. Federer holds many records in the game, including having appeared in ten consecutive Grand Slam men’s singles finals (2005 Wimbledon Championships through the 2007 US Open) and 17 consecutive Grand Slam singles semifinals (2004 Wimbledon – present). He also holds the open era records for consecutive wins on both grass courts (65) and hard courts (56).

Federer’s success has prompted a number of tennis critics, legendary players, and current players to consider him to be the greatest tennis player in history. In 2008, he was named Laureus World Sportsman of the Year for a record fourth consecutive time.

Lewis Hamilton started competing at karts at age 8. Starting early is key. If you haven’t started, please start now. There is a saying that goes thus,”The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago; the next best time time is now.