Andy Roddick Quotes

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

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.

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

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 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, actually I wanted to play five. I definitely wanted to try to lose that fourth set and test the waters in the fifth.

I used to, like, hit for a half hour and then go eat Cheetos the rest of the day, come out and drill forehands. Now I'm really trying to make it happen, being professional, really going for it, and I miss my Cheetos.

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

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 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 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.

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

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.

There have been great champions in every generation.

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 just glad to see that Pete (Sampras) shut everyone up last year. That was satisfying. You can't bag on guys like Pete or Tiger (Woods) or Michael Jordan. They can play as long as they want, they can do whatever they want. Nobody should be able to tell them differently.

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

I'm still missing that little something.

If nothing else, I'm a decent quote.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 definitely think the European weather has more of a factor than the European clay. I think the European weather changes from week to week, I mean, last year it was sunny and hot and this week it's kind of playing tricks on us a little bit. I definitely think that is a factor.

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

I think the medical term for the injury is 'the bottom of my ass hurts.'

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

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

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.

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

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

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.'

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.

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.

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

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).

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

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

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

I used to hear a lot that all I could do was hit a serve, I couldn't volley, I can't hit a backhand, I don't return well, and then people would turn round and tell me I'm underachieving.