Jim Courier Quotes

Tennis is not like other sports where the coach is hired by an independent entity, and that makes a huge difference in the dynamic.

If they're trying to get high school kids to go to the D-League, I will be shouting from mountaintops saying, 'What is this going to do to a generation of kids who say, 'All right, I'm going to do this,' you get one or two years to make it, and now you're out without any opportunities. Who's taking care of those kids now?'

I don't want to lose the feeling I have for players, but the pro system almost causes you to be cold and insensitive, when you have to release players yearly.

In the back of my mind, I always knew I wanted to be in the sports representation business. Being an ex-player, I knew that those were the people I wanted to work with.

If you drop a player when his form dips, sometimes it never quite comes back.

You got to worry about getting good damn coaches.

Detroit Pistons basketball slogan: When the going gets tough, we fire the coach.

I never thought I was going to make a career out of tennis, to be honest, until I was 10 or 11 years old. One of my earliest memories is when I was seven, and I was competing against players that were three, four years older than me. I didn't take it too seriously at the time. I was having a lot of fun.

Once you graduate from the Under-19 level, no one really gives you technical advice. It is all about making mental adjustments.

Modern-day coaching is about relationships, so I need to know every little thing that will make my players tick. How am I going to get more out of our best players, from Fran Kirby, Lucy Bronze? Lucy wants to be challenged. If you tell her she can't do something, she'll try it.

If you go down the leagues, you have to understand what level you're working with, and if you get frustrated, then it's not going to ever happen for you. That's why a lot of managers don't succeed where they should do.

Unfortunately apparently I am to blame because I don't produce enough English players.

I always liked to be fairly simple because you could get more players ready to play quickly. If you lose players to free agency, injuries, etc., it is easier to get young players ready to play in a less complex system.

Teach players the game at an early age and stop treating them like cash cows for everyone to profit off of.

A common mistake among those who work in sport is spending a disproportional amount of time on "x's and o's" as compared to time spent learning about people.

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

If I'd gone straight to the NBA, I don't think I would have been ready as a player or a person.

Michelle is 14. Give her a couple of years to get stronger. I mean, she can play on this tour. If she keeps working, keeps doing the right things, there's no reason why she shouldn't be out here.

Three years without a Premiership title? I don't think I would still be in a job.

My role is to think about tennis and to help Serena Williams be the best she can be and do what she wants to achieve.

Youngsters of Little League can survive undercoaching a lot better than overcoaching.

Basketball is a business. Pure and simple. If you want to have fun, go to the YMCA.

I think the NFL is 10 years away from an implosion.

I feel I have proved myself just as much as everybody else does. I usually don't think about the past too much. I just try to perform the routines I have been practicing.

It's shocking how little there is to do with tennis when you're just thinking about nothing except winning every point.