Just in time for the French Open, a special edition Wheaties box featuring tennis great Andre Agassi will be on grocery shelves nationwide. With eight Grand Slam titles and 58 career singles titles, Agassi is one of only five male tennis players to have won all of the Grand Slam tournaments in a lifetime. He's also a 1996 Olympic gold medal winner. Like everyone else, he says, he grew up admiring the many great athletes that have been pictured on the box of the breakfast of champions:
"Being on the Wheaties box represents so much to me, I know that kids are going to look at it and dream about it themselves. So to be a small part of the point of inspiration - it's quite an amazing feeling. I can win a tournament and it doesn't seem to have the same impact as telling your mom you're going to be on the Wheaties box."
Agassi is the ninth tennis great to be on a Wheaties box since the tradition of featuring star athletes began in the 1930's.
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