Harlem native James Blake, an American tennis player ranked 8th in the world, dispenses his father’s advice to high school and college (NCAA) athletes.” “For me it was something my father always say, he is always a believer and a hard worker to get to the next level…,”
“…no matter what you’ve done before if you’re working hard (you’re on the right track),”you just wanna take what the next guy is doing and (think about) what part of it (you learn from), anytime I don’t feel like getting up for practice, I don’t feel like going in the gym, I just think of how hard my father worked and how perfect an example he was for me to know how to work hard.”














