American - Athlete | August 17, 1970 -
It is very dangerous to have your self-worth riding on your results as an athlete.
Jim Courier
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If they had rankings in baseball, maybe I would have been able to do the math and figure out my chances of being a professional baseball player versus a tennis player. But that was the decision-maker for me, I just thought I was better in tennis.
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Unbelievable, yet, what else could it be?
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I really try not to read the tennis articles, because a lot of times they're guessing at how a player is feeling, and I like to keep myself kind of open minded about how I'm feeling, rather than have someone else explain to me what's going on.
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Tennis doesn't encourage any kind of intellectual development.
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The airplane has had a big impact on my life.
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The dumber you are on court, the better you're going to play.
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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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I think all of us are shaped by the choices we make.
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I've been lucky enough to primarily work for myself over the years.
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I think all of us who kind of live within the sport recognize that Davis Cup certainly could be a little more visible if perhaps there were some adjustments made to it, and it was made a little bit more easy to understand for the fans, if there's a little bit more of a start and finish line.
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It's hard for anyone in the 24-hour news cycles that we all live in now to follow something that the first round is played in March and the final finishes in December. I understand the challenges there.
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