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Tennis is still very successful in spite of itself.

Jim Courier

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Jim Courier
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 17
Tennis Player
Sanford
Florida
James Spencer Courier
Tennis
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Successful
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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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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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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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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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What I've seen historically is winning is a major aloe. It solves a lot of problems.
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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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I think all of us are shaped by the choices we make.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Tennis doesn't encourage any kind of intellectual development.
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People handle stress in different ways.
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Unbelievable, yet, what else could it be?
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