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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.

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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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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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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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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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. 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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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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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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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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Tennis doesn't encourage any kind of intellectual development.
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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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If I had to choose one man to play for my life, it would be Nadal.
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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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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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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 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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You'd have to think that if he'd been around today, Rod Laver would have been Rod Laver.
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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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