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If I had to choose one man to play for my life, it would be Nadal.

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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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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There's no evidence that says that the money a federation has translates into success. I hope that that will change.
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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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You need to make sure everyone is healthy first and foremost.
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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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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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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 doesn't encourage any kind of intellectual development.
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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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Flying has opened up new horizons for tennis.
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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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There are things we can't control - like the wins and the losses.
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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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Unbelievable, yet, what else could it be?
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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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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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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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Many books have been written about what the X-factor is, what separates people who win big matches versus those who struggle. Some of it's innate, but there's a piece of it that's learned, embracing those moments.
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The dumber you are on court, the better you're going to play.
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