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The airplane has had a big impact on my life.

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Jim Courier
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 17
Tennis Player
Sanford
Florida
James Spencer Courier
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Airplane
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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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Flying has opened up new horizons for tennis.
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The dumber you are on court, the better you're going to play.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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Unbelievable, yet, what else could it be?
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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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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 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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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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Fear is an interesting energy that we all have to face. Some people step up and aren't afraid but still come up short. And some would rather cop out: My shoulder hurts or I didn't give it my all. They can sleep at night.
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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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