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Sports for me is when a guy walks off the court, and you really can't tell whether he won or lost, when he carries himself with pride either way.

Jim Courier

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Jim Courier
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 17
Tennis Player
Sanford
Florida
James Spencer Courier
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Trophies separate the winners from losers, and life is about winning and losing. Go into business and you see. You're competing every day.
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I am there to play tennis and represent the U.S., but I'm also aware that not everyone's going to be able to think that way.
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Even the poor can be fat in the U.S. That says something about a country. That's how incredible what we have is. But it can also take away incentive.
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America has an interesting global role, don't we? It certainly seems to be changing. Our government right now has a softer hand than we've had in the past, but I still think that we're the global behemoth.
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In America, we love to give people second chances too - as long as you admit you were wrong and come back and do it the right way.
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America is the world's policemen, whether you and I like that or not. That's a fact. People globally feel that.
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Hell be lucky to last five or six years on those knees. What it might have to come down to is playing less on hard surfaces and playing more on forgiving surfaces.
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What I like about the USTA is that it's developing systems to help the coaches coach better.
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People handle stress in different ways.
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The dumber you are on court, the better you're going to play.
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We lose a lot of young athletes because tennis is such a difficult sport. It's not like kicking a soccer ball.
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I'm a big proponent of Hawk-Eye. I think it's a wonderful addition, not only for the players, but more importantly for the fans.
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What separates the winners from the losers is that they can deal with doing their best while still coming up short.
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Tennis is more than just shots. It's about being clutch and beating the people on the other side of the net.
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Without a doubt, there's huge satisfaction when a relatively smaller nation can take on a bigger nation and defeat them. There's a lot of pride in that.
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It's a simple question of supply and demand. But all of us are grossly overpaid. I think it's a ridiculous dispute.
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Unbelievable, yet, what else could it be?
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The airplane has had a big impact on my life.
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There are things we can't control - like the wins and the losses.
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There's plenty of anecdotal evidence that most champions are born into certain environments and encouraged early. Then, later on, they might get some assistance from their federations.
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