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!

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

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

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

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.

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.

If nothing else, I'm a decent quote.

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

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

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

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

Having two older brothers is a healthy reminder that you're always closer to the bottom than you are to the top.

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 don't think I'm one of those guys who won't pick up a racket for three years...I love hitting tennis balls.

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

I kind of know youre only as good as your last result.

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

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.

I don't care when people use the term 'one-Slam wonder' with me.

I try not to take myself too seriously. I like to have a good time.

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

There have been great champions in every generation.

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

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?

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.

I'm still missing that little something.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

There's no doubt there are issues with clay. Our issues have issues that are issues right now. That's not a secret.