Andy Roddick Quotes

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

Well, immediately we announced yesterday or the day before we're building, with my foundation, a youth tennis and learning center in Austin. I'd like to be hands on with that and not see it periodically.

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 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'll never lose my roots. I think I'm too close to my family for that. I still make my trip back to Nebraska every year, and I still love going back to Texas where I grew up, as well. I've just kind of had to mature a little bit more and get used to a little bit different style of life.

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

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

One little secret of the guys who have won one slam, is that we don't want other guys to win one because its like a bit of a special fraternity.

My worst days are still pretty good days. That's something I might lose in the moment sometimes, but I have a pretty good grasp of it.

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.

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).

I've got more out of tennis than I could ever give back.

No, actually I wanted to play five. I definitely wanted to try to lose that fourth set and test the waters in the fifth.

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

I don't really rate press conferences. It's not as though I leave the room fist-pumping my way down the corridor after a good one.

I've been pretty good about keeping my nose to the grindstone. I feel like I won a lot of matches from hard work and persistence, even maybe when I had better options as far as shot-making.

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

I don't know that I've ever been someone who's interested in existing on tour. I have a lot of interests and a lot of other things that excite me.

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

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?

You know, I still love the innocent parts of the game. I love hitting tennis balls. I love seeing the young guys do well. I'll still have a lot of friends to watch. I'll miss the relationships probably the most. As time passes, I'll probably miss the tennis more.

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

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

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've always, for whatever my faults have been, felt like I've never done anything halfway.

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

I like playing tennis. I've always enjoyed the process of being a tennis player; I'm just not sure that I enjoyed the travel at the end, and my body didn't recover from the day-to-day grind.

The selfish thing about an athlete is you always look at the side of things where you say I could've done that better.

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

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 don't want to live and die with every point that's being played out there now. I'm going to let my coach live and die with every point.

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.

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

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.

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

I don't have much interest in being on a senior tour. I don't think I retired so that I could be on tour.

You know, you can only throw in so many haymakers before one misses and you get knocked out.

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

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.

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

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

He [Vince Spadea] was about as down and out as you could see from a Top 20 player. Then to claw his way back through the minor leagues and do it the hard way where he wasn't young, wasn't getting wildcards, wasn't getting any help. I guess he decided he was just going to do it.

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

You ask me a question, I'm going to give you an honest answer.

Why would I get a wild card into an American tournament, (as the) top-ranked American? Why would that happen? That makes too much sense. Maybe I should play more Davis Cup, that's the story. Oh wait, I do.

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'm the most successful bad player ever.

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

I don't know that I'll ever be the guy who needs to go to a tournament to be seen and to spectate. I feel like I can accomplish spectating from home.

Stay in college, kids. Otherwise, you may become an umpire.