If the dream is big enough
A school was across from my home and I often saw a girl student playing basketball. She practiced over and over again, sometimes_1_ it got dark. One day I asked her why she practiced so2. She said, "I like basketball I want to play for a top basketball team. I want to be the best. My3told me if the dream is big enough, the facts don't count. "
One day, I saw the girl sitting in the grass, looking4. I went over there and sat down beside her. Quietly I5her what was wrong. "Oh, nothing, "she answered softly. "I'm6too short. "In fact，the coach(教练)told her that she was too short to play for a top team,7she should stop dreaming about it. I asked her if she had8to her dad about it yet. She told me that her father said the coach was9. He just did not understand the10of a dream. Her dad told her that if she really wanted to play11a top basketball team, if she truly wanted to be the best,12could stop her. He told her again, "If the dream is big enough, the facts don't count."
The next year, as the girl and her team went to the Northern California Championship game, she was13by a college recruiter(招生人员). She won the scholarship(奖学金) to14in a college which she had dreamed of and she could play for a famous women's basketball team! Her dream15!
