Andy Roddick Quotes

At one point in your life, you'll have the thing you want or the reasons why you don't.

In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go.

You can get the true essence of New Yorkers by just hanging out in Central Park

My serve has killed a small dog ... I'm joking, I'm joking! The dog was huge!

Most players who play tennis love the game. But I think you also have to respect it. You want to do everything you can in your power to do your best. And for me, I know I get insane guilt if I go home at the end of the day and don't feel I've done everything I can. If I know I could have done something better, I have this uneasy feeling.

If I can break one out of every three return games, I'm going to give myself a shot in a lot of matches.

When you make the schedule, you're not planning on playing deep into every single week, or at least I haven't in the past. I'm not physically or mentally ready to pick up my bags and go to Monte Carlo. I definitely have to look at what's best for my chances at (at the French Open).

Call me All-American, but I love Ham and Cheese sandwiches. And not just any old ham and cheese sandwich... My mother's is the best. I've tried many times to make these sandwiches on my own, but it's never the same.

My aggression out there is my weapon. I think it's more letting them know that I'm not going to let them get away with something, and I'm not just going to kind of poke it back and be content to stay in rallies.

Once you get to a certain level, anybody can beat anybody else on any given day.

I'm convinced being a tennis analyst is the easiest job in the world.

The key to the match might have been his serving. Maybe I should have concentrated harder on watching them go by me, I don't know.

I enjoy hitting tennis balls. I haven't lost any of the innocent parts of tennis. I just do it in front of less people.

No, if I wore a sleeveless shirt, people would try to feed me after the match. If you got the guns, go for it. I got two breadsticks sticking out of my sleeve. I'll stick with sleeves.

I do understand that when someone gives you a [expletive] load of money, you take that money. Someone like Larry Ellison wants to invest into his event and make it the biggest possible, and he gets stopped by the ATP. If you're a start-up, what would make you want to navigate through that and to go through that firing line? How can you step into tennis with any confidence? It's the stupidest thing I've ever heard of.

Tennis analyst is the easiest job in the world because whatever the person does, if it works you just say that's what's good, and if it doesn't work, you guys go, 'He should have done the other things.'.It just doesn't take much thought. If I'm grinding and I'm winning, you guys are like, 'He's reinvented himself.' If I'm playing like crap and pushing, then, you know, 'He's horrible and he needs to hit the ball.'

I've become better at the net. I've got a 135 mph serve so I'd be stupid not to follow that in. Overall I'm a better player than I was last year.

I've been good about keeping my nose to the grindstone.

I used to go to the US Open on my birthdays and sit in the nosebleeds.

I'm not going to go run and hide because I'm catching some heat. I'm not going to stay at home and pout.

The only pressure I feel is what I put on myself.

If nothing else, I'm a decent quote.

I cook a little - I've never taken classes or anything - but enough to get by.

Almost everybody's here doing the same thing. Who am I to come up with an excuse when there's 64 other players here doing the same thing? 63 others, sorry.

I think if I believe in something strongly enough, I'm pretty outspoken about it.

When you come off something really disappointing, you want to come back and kind of regroup and get involved in something positive right away.

I got to play in a crowd, play in Wimbledon finals, be the guy on a Davis Cup team for a while. Those are opportunities not a lot of people get.

I always said if I had to pick one Grand Slam to win, it would be the U.S. Open.

Stay in school kids or you'll end up being an umpire.

I'm the most successful bad player ever.

I want everyone to look back and think that I was awesome.

It seems with every match I win, I get better-looking to other people.

For every bad moment I've had, there have been 25 positives.

I had a very detailed retirement plan, and I feel like I've met every aspect of it: a lot of golf, a lot of carbs, a lot of fried food, and some booze, occasionally - I've been completely committed... The results have shown.

I'm not the savior of men's tennis in America. I'm just a kid trying to win a few matches.

There's no home team in tennis, no built-in fan base, so the players have to step up and do their fair share.

I think I have a lot of room for improvement. My serve is okay, but I need to work on a lot of things: return, transition game, backhand.

I'm still missing that little something.

I don't think about tennis 24/7. I enjoy time on the lake at my Florida home and just being lazy on the sofa.

I like grass, I enjoy it and it suits my game.

I played basketball in high school, and I love watching sports - I'll watch everything except maybe hockey.

I'm gonna have to start winning some of the matches to call it a rivalry!

I still don't believe I won the U.S. Open. It's so far-fetched for me.

One of the cool things I remember is the Swiss people brought their big cowbells.

It's pretty high up there on the list. Being able to return a serve at that speed is one of the biggest things that separates the professionals from the recreational players.

I think I've always had a decent perspective on wins and losses on the tennis court.

I've pretty much been portrayed as every style thing you can be. After Wimbledon you are Andy Everyman, who everybody is rooting for. I think the meat and potatoes of who I am hasn't been covered yet.

I'll be the first to admit it, the life I'm leading is basically a joke. I should probably be cooler about it, but I can't fake it, you know?

The whole point of team competition is to pick your teammates up.

I'm an emotional player ... I like to leave it out there.