Jim Courier Quotes
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The reason I didn't take the baseball route is because they don't have rankings for baseball players.
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You have to be extreme to be exceptional. I couldn't revel in being number one. I had to get to zero. When my fitness was at its peak, I was intimidating. I made guys cave in. They'd be dejected in the locker room after matches, and I'd go out for a run, as if it wasn't enough. I'd rub it in their faces. I meant to do that.
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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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I've been lucky enough to primarily work for myself over the years.
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If I had to choose one man to play for my life, it would be Nadal.
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It is very dangerous to have your self-worth riding on your results as an athlete.
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There are only four U.S. tournaments that the very best players in the world play every year - Palm Springs, Miami, Cincinnati, and the U.S. Open. So how would golf or NFL or NHL fare if there were only four times a year that their very best were visible? Tennis went international, and for us to expect it to be popular media-wise is very naïve. And that translates into children and families being interested.
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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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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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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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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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It does take a great hunger to be successful at anything.
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The airplane has had a big impact on my life.
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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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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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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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Unbelievable, yet, what else could it be?
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There's a reason why Federer and Nadal are so gracious when they lose. They sleep well at night knowing that they've given their best.
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You can look directly at the NFL and see how successful they've become because they have central control, central voice, and it doesn't mean that the owners don't have a say, but the commissioner runs it, and he's the one who speaks for them when they go out and do commercial deals.
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You have to look at each tie and look at what your options are.
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Even the poor can be fat in the U.S.
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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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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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Us going out there and performing our best. That's how I define success. I'm not going to define it for us by the wins and the losses as much as by the effort and how we handle ourselves.
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People handle stress in different ways.
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I think the Davis Cup has some untapped potential. It should be as prominent as the Grand Slams when it takes place. If you put it together with Fed Cup for an organized, nationalistic team competition taking place in a central location for two weeks, I think that would be beneficial from a fan interest stand point, from a media stand point and from a television stand point.
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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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Flying has opened up new horizons for tennis.
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I think all of us are shaped by the choices we make.
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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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