Jim Courier Quotes About Tennis

Quotes about: Tennis

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

  Jim Courier

  People, Tennis, Sides

  Source: www.powersharesseries.com

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

  Jim Courier

  Play, Tennis, Court

• Unbelievable, yet, what else could it be?

  Jim Courier

  Tennis, Unbelievable

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

  Jim Courier

  Thinking, Tennis, Today

• 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.

  Jim Courier

  Baseball, Math, Player

  "Interview With Davis Cup's American Coach Jim Courier". Interview with Lauren Lynch, bleacherreport.com. December 1, 2010.

• 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.

  Jim Courier

  Player, Tennis, Feelings

• You can drill down on where hunger comes from and figure it out from there, but there absolutely has to be a sense of urgency if you're going to play tennis because you're the team - there's no one for you to rely on but yourself.

  Jim Courier

  Team, Play, Tennis

  Source: www.powersharesseries.com

• I knew I was the second-best tennis player in the state of Florida and No. 8 in the United States of America when I was 12 years old and I couldn't tell you what I was in baseball, but I liked my chances in tennis of getting a scholarship to college.

  Jim Courier

  Baseball, Player, College

  "Interview With Davis Cup's American Coach Jim Courier". Tennis Now Interview, bleacherreport.com. November 30, 2010.

• The first thing I would do is create one office that controlled all of pro tennis so you had one central voice that spoke for tennis. Central governance is something that's really held the sport back and will continue to do so.

  Jim Courier

  Sports, Voice, Office

  Source: www.powersharesseries.com

• Flying has opened up new horizons for tennis.

  Jim Courier

  Tennis, Flying, New Horizons

  "Tennis is dependent on jet travel" By Jim Courier, www.cnn.com. December 6, 2004.

• 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.

  Jim Courier

  Team, Fighting, People

• Tennis is still very successful in spite of itself.

  Jim Courier

  Successful, Tennis, Spite

  Source: www.powersharesseries.com

• Tennis doesn't encourage any kind of intellectual development.

  Jim Courier

  Encouragement, Tennis, Intellectual

• There is a lot of pressure on tennis players like other sports that are singular like you're not on a team. When all the pressure rides on your shoulders, it can be a lot different. Team sports you share those moments with the teammates. You share the pressures. You share the wins. You share the losses. You have a coach that can change the course of matches. But in tennis you're out there by yourself. There are no caddies. There are no coaches. You do it alone in the arena and I think that ups the ante a little bit.

  Jim Courier

  Sports, Team, Loss

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

• 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.

  Jim Courier

  Thinking, Play, Tennis

  Source: www.powersharesseries.com

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

  Jim Courier

  Soccer, Sports, Athlete

  Source: www.powersharesseries.com

• 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

  Basketball, Running, Athlete

  Source: www.powersharesseries.com

• 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.

  Jim Courier

  Wise, Children, Spring

  Source: www.powersharesseries.com

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