Jim Courier Quotes

The coaches that I have have done an incredible job with me, obviously the stuff we work on on the court.

I find young kids. I enjoy coaching and enjoy making them better players.

You know over 20 years I played for a number of managers and dozens of coaches. I don't know any of them that I didn't learn something from to help make me a better player.

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

I think I will always stay involved in tennis and would like to give back by helping out young players. I have done a little commentary and may one day enjoy doing that again.

Well, my mum's been a tennis coach - she coached me till I was 12.

I think that teaching coaches are the norm now.

So you get two good hours on the field about every day, you get about an hour and a half in the meeting room and that's pretty much all you need to thoroughly coach your team.

My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball; however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs.

I enjoy teaching football.

I had great success with Ivan Lendl. Was he a perfect coach? No. Was he a very good coach? Yeah. He had some very strong qualities and some things that weren't so good.

It is for sure a big part of the coach's job to make sure the tennis does not get neglected.

Beyond studying, though, I think a coach should mainly have knowledge of football: if you do not know what to say to the players then you are not going anywhere.

I've been following some of the coaches, trying to get a little bit more experience, because coaching is very different from being a player.

As I have evolved as a coach, I was a guy who was all about the game and a person who focused on the wins and losses.

For players from every age and every ability, the USTA National Campus will raise the bar on how we deliver tennis with the goal of making our great sport more accessible to more people than ever before.

I'm a modern coach when it comes to training. I pick a lot of things up and I watch a lot of training sessions and follow a lot of leagues around the world.

The one thing that young coaches should do is if there is an NBA team in your area, get to training camp and see the coaching that goes on.

As a coach, the greatest passion you can have is for improving players.

Every coach has his own philosophy.

Rita Guarino is one of the best technical coaches I have had in my career - often she demonstrates a specific technique and shows the players up!

After the training session, video analysis. You can see the good and the bad, show players how to improve. Not because I want to find blame. Sometimes 20 or 30 minutes of video is more important than three training sessions.

I wanted to become a college coach. I got game films of all the good college coaches - Pete Newell at California, Eddie Donovan with St. Bonaventure, Ken Loeffler at LaSalle.

I passed my Lawn Tennis Association coaching exam, and I persuaded my local club to let me use a court after school and on Saturdays.

I grew up in the USTA's junior circuit.