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Flying has opened up new horizons for tennis.

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Jim Courier
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 17
Tennis Player
Sanford
Florida
James Spencer Courier
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Tennis
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I'm not suggesting that the entire nation can't be successful, but there's something to it when you have 150 cable channels and the Internet at your fingertips and video games and all kinds of ADD-addled devices like my iPhone and your BlackBerry and things that keep us busy.
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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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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 can kick a ball into the net, throw a basketball into the net. Tennis is complicated. It'll make a lot of great athletes run the other way because they can't be successful initially.
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Tennis is still very successful in spite of itself.
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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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You need to make sure everyone is healthy first and foremost.
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Tennis doesn't encourage any kind of intellectual development.
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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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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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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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There are certainly great cities in America that don't have ATP and WTA events. Our fans are very provincial. They want American champions.
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If I had to choose one man to play for my life, it would be Nadal.
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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.
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Even the poor can be fat in the U.S.
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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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The airplane has had a big impact on my life.
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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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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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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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