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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.
Jim Courier
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Jim Courier
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 17
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James Spencer Courier
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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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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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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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Even the poor can be fat in the U.S.
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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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You'd have to think that if he'd been around today, Rod Laver would have been Rod Laver.
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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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