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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.

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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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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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've seen historically is winning is a major aloe. It solves a lot of problems.
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Even the poor can be fat in the U.S.
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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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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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I think there's no reason the Davis Cup couldn't be as powerful and popular and profitable as any of the four majors are today, given some changes.
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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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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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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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There are things we can't control - like the wins and the losses.
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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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If I had to choose one man to play for my life, it would be Nadal.
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Tennis is still very successful in spite of itself.
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