Dimensions: Vijay Amritraj interviews Steffi Graf & Andre Agassi - part 3

dollars over the last 15 years but what's been harder than doing that and that hasn't been easy I assure you what's been hard is seeing all the kids you can't help. It's not just about literacy at the Agassi Prep School. Here children are encouraged to follow and emulate the lives and thoughts of some of history's greatest men. A few of whom have had great influence on Agassi himself. Andre this is a very special area for you I mean when we looked at this you obviously first with your picture here and what Winston Churchill said all these sayings mean a lot to you. Well they do and it means a lot to these kids at this stage of their life this is the middle school and when you're in middle school you start to ask real questions and you need to give them real direction as to what their future can look like and I wanted to think about people that have changed the world that these people who have changed the world are actually real people just like you and they started just like you in many cases and what they've done is unparalleled you know and I mean I picture of me's up because I'm here a lot and so they can see me and as a result of the work that I've done they have this school but then they can see what all the people that have inspired me and what they've done for so many more and not to forget you know these these quotes are powerful. Wonderful. This man this man and impacted my life even though I met him only one time you know talk about somebody who lives his values talk about somebody who never took any shortcuts for what he stands for and what he is trying to accomplish and who he is is mesmerizing to me and and this quote is incredible for to be free is not merely to cast off one's change but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedoms of and then of course we have Gandhi what what inspired you to have Mahatma Gandhi up here well I mean he said he has said many things and that have changed the way we look at ourselves I loved this quote from him we must become the change we want to see you know we stop talking about it and start living it we have to become what we believe everything else should be meanwhile Steffi Graf founded children for tomorrow in 1998 to help mentally and emotionally traumatized children who have been victims of violence and war I learned to be myself I learned to find my way project in Hamburg children for tomorrow you got started in 98 this is almost even before you had quit the game it was yeah no I you know through tennis I would come a lot through Hamburg where there was one of the big tournaments and I have still some some good friends and gotten to know these doctors that work at the University in Eppendorf and they you know talked a lot about what they were doing dealing with dealing and treating traumatized children traumatized through war persecution and violence when you look at a war-torn area you know you see the devastation you see the physical you see the visible wounds but you don't really you don't look often at what really goes through on inside people live in there the children that grew up in these environments so you know being intimately involved in understanding what their work was and the difficulties they had and making people aware of the research that they were doing and the work that they were doing I became involved and since then we've opened up projects in Cape Town, Uganda, Eritrea, Kosovo, we've started projects all over and unfortunately there's a constant need for it. Does it feel like I mean would that feel like real business to you? It seems more like a philanthropic effort to be able to educate different parts of the country. It's a passion you know I mean you know what if you look at the things that have changed the world they're from people who are passionate about what they do and the difference it will make to society so I don't I don't differentiate that you know I mean what I did on the tennis court was was an ability to affect people for a couple hours I mean you change their lives you give them a break from their lives you entertain them you give them a memory they can keep a moment they can share with their family this is this is a lot of value in people's lives but now post tennis I believe we have a platform to to impact you know not just hundreds of thousands of lives but to impact generations so is it is it a passion of philanthropy unquestionably but is there business associated with it that's the only way to do it but anytime you're passionate about business you can make real social change. Both of you together or individually have not visited my country India and you have millions of fans in our part of the world. You know there's a few trips that we've been talking about now that our kids are old enough that we want them to experience with us and India has been clearly one of them that we've talked a lot about so take us take us. And I love the food I love the food and I want to see the culture and the people and it's place one of the few places that we haven't been that we just we want to come to. Well we would love to have you there and I'd be delighted to show you around look forward to doing that in the very near future thank you so much for joining us on dimensions it's very special to have you both with us and we certainly hope you make that visit to India and more than anything else it's talking to you have been a real delight and getting to know you even better it's just what we all expected of the two of you thank you so much. Thank you. From my perspective you know one of the things that Pete was greatest at was making you less but I think his greatest ability was to kind of lull you into this sense that you know that you don't have to do something special today he would hold serve you would hold serve he would play very ordinary for 35 minutes 40 minutes and then for 30 seconds he would do something spectacular and the set was over with so when I played against him I was always