tennis quiz - who said this quote... jimmy connors or benoit paire?
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BeatlesFan
Bionic Poster
Paire's a total head case and exemplifies what's wrong with tennis today. It's all about the cash, not about winning titles, working your ass off or trying to become the greatest player you can become. Too many are just satisfied to hover around 50-100 in the rankings and rake in the cash without any results.
NAS
Hall of Fame
But wasn't it always for money apart from 80-90, there is reason why there was a pro tour to begin with.
Economics major. Maybe has some Six Stigma training, focus on efficiency. Smart.
ollinger
G.O.A.T.
I understand your point but one could argue that it's the ones who work their asses off are more the head cases in a practical sense. If Paire is making a good living and having a pleasant enough time doing it, so be it for him
Slowtwitcher
Legend
Given that he's quite unique in the way he acts, your premise is demonstrably FALSE.
BeatlesFan
Bionic Poster
Slowtwitcher
Legend
The premise that Paire is a head case is demonstrably false?
I understand that English is not your first language, but please try to follow along.
Raul_SJ
G.O.A.T.
The OP asked which player said this, so both quotes must have attributed to Pairre.
tennis quiz - who said this quote... jimmy connors or benoit paire?
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Jason Swerve
Hall of Fame
Hm, is that why the 80s-90s had such great tennis? No video games? You might be onto something.
Yeah I realized I messed up just after posting. Happens to me pretty often.
jm1980
Talk Tennis Guru
But that's a problem that corrects itself. You don't get entry into tournaments for free; if you keep losing then your ranking will eventually drop and you will have to go to Challengers, and so on.
no smart phones is more like it lol
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PETEhammer
Guest
10k=30k? Hmmmm 
Raul_SJ
G.O.A.T.
Perhaps this quote will be easier to identify:
"I arrive. I collect millions from the Oil Sheikhs and hawk my ugly $500 shoes. I play two pitiful matches and then announce another hiatus. I do my job," he said.
Jason Swerve
Hall of Fame
You'll understand it in Algebra 12.10k=30k? Hmmmm
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PETEhammer
Guest
Don't forget the sleek, James Bond racket. Although I guess he did an online interview for that
Raul_SJ
G.O.A.T.
Michelle from TW interviewed him in Sept for the RF97.
Would not be surprised if Fed lurks here.
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Terenigma
G.O.A.T.
I don't think its fair to say "its whats wrong with tennis today" Paire obviously is a head case but him aside, not every player is going to win titles. I'm sure there are a handful of players out there who probably work harder than the top players and want to win titles over cash but get nowhere because they don't have that extra talent needed. I'm sure for them it's really hard to stay motivated in that situation and tennis IS a job at the end of the day, they need to make money so they naturally fall into the paycheck attitude. It's no different from a normal job in my opinion, how long can you work at your absolute best yet never get promoted or appreciated before you just sorta slip back into just doing the job?
