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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.

Jim Courier

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Jim Courier
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 17
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Florida
James Spencer Courier
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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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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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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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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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