Because You Really Can't Have It All...

it pays to be happy in the end, with the choices you do make for yourself. 

Had things worked out differently, Mario Ancic, the Croatian lawyer, would have spent the past two weeks grinding it out on the hardcourts at the United States Open. Instead, he has been holed up in the Columbia law library, poring over his contracts casebook.
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“I had to retire early and that’s life,” he said. “You try to deal with it and fight through it, but at some point you need to turn the page and move on to something else.”
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“There are a bunch of guys like Roger who are older than me and still playing at a championship level,” Ancic said. “But everyone has their own story, and I’m really happy with mine.”