Top 70 Quotes & Sayings by Jim Courier - Page 2

Flying has opened up new horizons for tennis.

When I turned professional, what I was really aiming for was to be in the top 100, try to hold the top 100 for ten years, and just be in the show, and have a nice career. It's more than I could have ever hoped for. I worked awfully hard for it, but there are other people who worked just as hard and didn't get the breaks. I recognized that I've been lucky and being able to live this life that I wanted since a young age. I really went after it with everything that I have and somehow it worked out.

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

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

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

Tennis is still very successful in spite of itself.

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.

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