Andy Roddick famous quotes

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

#Inspirational #Motivational #Success

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

#Dog #Tennis

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

#Inspirational #Winning #People

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

#People #Remember #Bigs

If nothing else, I'm a decent quote.
-- Andy Roddick

#Decent

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.
-- Andy Roddick

#Years #Play #Long

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.
-- Andy Roddick

#Gun #Two #People

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.
-- Andy Roddick

#Stupid #Player #Mph

My backhand is definitely a lot more solid and consistent. There were times when I couldn't hit it into the ocean.
-- Andy Roddick

#Ocean #Consistent

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.
-- Andy Roddick

#Player #Able #Lists

I'm still missing that little something.
-- Andy Roddick

#Missing #Littles #Stills

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.
-- Andy Roddick

#Mean #Thinking #Years

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.
-- Andy Roddick

#Sorry #Player #Tennis

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

#Lasts #Kind #Results

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.
-- Andy Roddick

#Play #Waiting #Cards

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.
-- Andy Roddick

#Thinking #Weapons #Kind

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.
-- Andy Roddick

#Mother #Cheesy #Sandwiches

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.
-- Andy Roddick

#Home #Player #Thinking

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

#Play #Water #Tennis

If I wore a sleeveless shirt, people would try to feed me after the match.
-- Andy Roddick

#People #Tennis #Trying

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.
-- Andy Roddick

#Tennis #Want #Coaches

Is that the longest fifth set ever? It was? So, no, I've never played one longer than that!
-- Andy Roddick

#Tennis #Fifth

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.
-- Andy Roddick

#Keys #Tennis #Might

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

#Issues #Tennis #Doubt

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

#Essence #Central Park #Parks

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.
-- Andy Roddick

#Thinking #Who I Am #Style

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.
-- Andy Roddick

#Retirement #Golf #Carbs

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.
-- Andy Roddick

#Winning #Guy #Secret

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

#School #Kids #Umpires

There have been great champions in every generation.
-- Andy Roddick

#Champion #Generations

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

#Sports #Want #Kind

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

#Inspirational #Sports #Brother

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

#Taken #Class #Littles

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.
-- Andy Roddick

#Home #Thinking #Lakes

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

#People #Use #Care

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.
-- Andy Roddick

#Fists #Way #Rooms

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.
-- Andy Roddick

#Interest

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.
-- Andy Roddick

#Home #Guy #Needs

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.
-- Andy Roddick

#Sports #Running #Home

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

#Believe #Thinking #Enough

I don't think anyone in their right mind takes me serious.
-- Andy Roddick

#Thinking #Mind #Serious

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

#Sports #Tennis #Totems

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

#Jobs #Tennis #World

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

#Thinking #Looks #Want

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

#My Birthday #Used #Nosebleeds

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

#Loss #Thinking #Winning

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.
-- Andy Roddick

#Thinking #Games #Return

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

#Basketball #Sports #School

I like grass, I enjoy it and it suits my game.
-- Andy Roddick

#Games #Suits #Grass

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.
-- Andy Roddick

#Team #Opportunity #Play

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.
-- Andy Roddick

#People #Tennis #Balls

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.
-- Andy Roddick

#Senior #Thinking #Interest

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

#Missing

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.'
-- Andy Roddick

#Jobs #Winning #Guy

I'm the most successful bad player ever.
-- Andy Roddick

#Successful #Player

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.
-- Andy Roddick

#People #Return #Volley

I think the medical term for the injury is 'the bottom of my ***** hurts.'
-- Andy Roddick

#Hurt #Thinking #Medical

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.
-- Andy Roddick

#Missing #Trying #Going For It

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

#Winning #Rivalry

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

#Team #Competition #Teammate

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.
-- Andy Roddick

#Giving #Tennis #Lines