Jim Courier Quotes

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.

I'm a big proponent of Hawk-Eye. I think it's a wonderful addition, not only for the players, but more importantly for the fans.

The dumber you are on court, the better you're going to play.

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.

If I had to choose one man to play for my life, it would be Nadal.

The airplane has had a big impact on my life.

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.

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.

The good news is I have time.

Even the poor can be fat in the U.S.

It is very dangerous to have your self-worth riding on your results as an athlete.

Tennis is more than just shots. It's about being clutch and beating the people on the other side of the net.

Tennis doesn't encourage any kind of intellectual development.

People handle stress in different ways.

You'd have to think that if he'd been around today, Rod Laver would have been Rod Laver.

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.

It's a simple question of supply and demand. But all of us are grossly overpaid. I think it's a ridiculous dispute.

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.

I've been lucky enough to primarily work for myself over the years.

It does take a great hunger to be successful at anything.

When you lack cohesion, it becomes difficult to have a clear marketing strategy.

Unbelievable, yet, what else could it be?

I think all of us are shaped by the choices we make.

Flying has opened up new horizons for tennis.

If you don't want to practice, unless you have a hard-nosed coach, you don't have to.

What separates the winners from the losers is that they can deal with doing their best while still coming up short.

Trophies separate the winners from losers, and life is about winning and losing. Go into business and you see. You're competing every day.

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.

What I've seen historically is winning is a major aloe. It solves a lot of problems.

Getting to number one in the world without a coach is highly unlikely.

Tennis is still very successful in spite of itself.

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.

The reason I didn't take the baseball route is because they don't have rankings for baseball players.

You need to look to make a cohesive calendar that makes sense and helps elongate the careers of your players as opposed to shorten them inadvertently.

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.

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.

There used to be a lot more politics in the Olympics, when the Soviet Bloc committed a lot of resources for propaganda purposes.

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.

America is the world's policemen, whether you and I like that or not. That's a fact. People globally feel that.

You need to make sure everyone is healthy first and foremost.

You have to look at each tie and look at what your options are.

There's no evidence that says that the money a federation has translates into success. I hope that that will change.

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.

We have a lot of options. America is a great country.

There are certainly great cities in America that don't have ATP and WTA events. Our fans are very provincial. They want American champions.

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.

We lose a lot of young athletes because tennis is such a difficult sport. It's not like kicking a soccer ball.

What I like about the USTA is that it's developing systems to help the coaches coach better.

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.

There are things we can't control - like the wins and the losses.