Well done Andy Murray!! Wimbledon being the tennis that everybody watched whilst growing up and wanting to win, what was your dream as a youngster ????

Well. I'm so pleased for Andy and it's great to see every one  happy but frankly tennis leaves me cold. I had awful experiences at school. I'm left handed which in 1960's catholic grammar school was considered unacceptable. Tennis lessons were a humiliation and I was banished from the class due to inability to use right hand.
My dream was to be first female astronaut ( beaten to it by Valentina ) or to work for MI5.

I am so thrilled for him - rather alarmingly, I woke up in the middle of the night having dreamed that Andy was down a set and break, and injured and about to get a medical time out - yikes!! Thanks goodness the reality was the complete opposite! :-)

I didn't really have any dreams as a very young child, and as a teenager I became short-sighted,  which meant I was rubbish at sports,  and because I had a hard time at school, really didn't want to wear specs which would have made it worse.

Probably the only thing I dreamed of, by the time I was 14, was winning BIS with one of my rabbits. Have had two reserve BIS, so I almost got there.

As a very young child I only had one ambition and that was to have a dog, we were never allowed any pets as we were too poor, it was a struggle to feed us, never mind a pet too.
At the age of 26 I finally got my wish :)

ok so Andy Murray 'won'. Thanks should go to Novak for letting him.  As Novak said Andy was under pressure from his mother and the media to win.  He is Andy's friend and it was his gift to him.
My dream when I was young was to get rich without working for it.

Kindred Spirit Ms Temeraire ! I had a rotten time at school because I was useless at sports, very shortsighted ( thick lens specs with those dreadful NHS frames) red hair, left handed and a bit plump. I was also a bit of a swot so a target for bullies. Well, I'm 62 now and much leaner and fitter than any of my contemporaries and have had  an interesting life.

>ok so Andy Murray 'won'. Thanks should go to Novak for letting him.  As Novak said Andy was under pressure from his mother and the media to win.  He is Andy's friend and it was his gift to him.

I'm sorry but what absolute rubbish! Novak has only won Wimbledon once, I'm sure there was never any hint of letting Andy win - that's just a nasty thing to say about both player. Novak would have wanted to win just as much, he just was outplayed on the day.

Bunnyfluff - sorry to disillusion you, but there is not a top tennis player alive who would deliberately lose any important match - let alone a Grand Slam Final (Wimbledon, or any of the others).  Anyone who knows anything about the sport at this level knows how fiercely competitive these players are.  Whether they are friends off court or not they fight for every point and it is this very hunger to win which, amongst many other things, makes these players great.  I'd love to hear what Novak would say if someone was ignorant enough to accuse him of 'gifting' any match to his opponent, and I would advise the accuser to stand well clear ...

>My dream when I was young was to get rich without working for it.

Those who wantonly disparage others achievements usually have no idea the work involved in success.

My dream was to be a famous show jumper. Marian Mould (Coakes) was my heroine and I used to practice all the time.
My pony was no Stroller however.

> Marian Mould (Coakes) was my heroine and I used to practice all the time.
> My pony was no Stroller however.

Loved riding but no pony so my bicycle was called Stroller!!!

Murray should also thank Nadal and Federer for going out in the very early stages lol

As a youngster my mother had pushed me to do ballet but I was never interested in it, but at the age of approx 11 years I went to see Swan Lake and I was hooked. ;-) For weeks I would dream of dancing like that and at my late age had my parents looking for a ballet school to go to, that was until my friends told me that ballet dancers didn't eat much to keep light for lifting, so I would have to spend my life not eating. :-D  That was it! The dream ended........ I still love watching it though. :-D

That I guess as a youngster was my only real dream........... for all of 10 minutes.

Also loved the piano but could never be that dedicated to practice so hard, so only learnt a few tunes and got bored to the dismay of my mother.  In fact any sport/hobby needs such dedication and I just didn't have it! Life was too fun for hard work. Even my sports teacher used to badger me to join the relay team as I could run like the wind, but had no interest in taking that any further either. Gosh, I must have been lazy, preferred to spend my time with friends and animals. :-D

Still, got my act together as I got older, now extremely dedicated, although still not enough to do ballet......... ;-)

Me, like many other animal lovers, I wanted to be a Vet.

But with at best 20% sight deteriorating to 10%, and then getting back to around 20% in my 30's through cataract surgery (so still technically still registered blind) there was no way.