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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.
Jim Courier
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Jim Courier
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 17
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Sanford
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James Spencer Courier
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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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I think all of us are shaped by the choices we make.
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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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It's really easy to find your friends when you're playing away. You have a close-knit group with you and everyone else is cheering hard for their side. There's more satisfaction coming away with a road victory.
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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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You'd have to think that if he'd been around today, Rod Laver would have been Rod Laver.
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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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Even the poor can be fat in the U.S.
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Tennis is still very successful in spite of itself.
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If I had to choose one man to play for my life, it would be Nadal.
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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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Focusing on one thing can be tough, and people with fewer options are more apt to concentrate on what they're doing. There's probably something to hunger.
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It's hard for anyone in the 24-hour news cycles that we all live in now to follow something that the first round is played in March and the final finishes in December. I understand the challenges there.
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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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Tennis doesn't encourage any kind of intellectual development.
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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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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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One of Nadal’s strengths is that he’s so humble, that he’s surprised at what he has achieved, and that he has never bought into his greatness.
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There's a reason why Federer and Nadal are so gracious when they lose. They sleep well at night knowing that they've given their best.
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I will do everything in my power to make sure people are aware that our team is out there fighting the good fight for the tennis fans of the United States.
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