Andy Roddick Quotes
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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.
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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.
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Umpiring, the only job in the world where you can screw up on a daily basis and still have one!
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Is that the longest fifth set ever? It was? So, no, I've never played one longer than that!
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Stay in school kids or you'll end up being an umpire.
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I threw the kitchen sink at him but he went to the bathroom and got his tub.
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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.
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In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go.
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I'm gonna have to start winning some of the matches to call it a rivalry!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Once you get to a certain level, anybody can beat anybody else on any given day.
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I cook a little - I've never taken classes or anything - but enough to get by.
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Having two older brothers is a healthy reminder that you're always closer to the bottom than you are to the top.
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One of the cool things I remember is the Swiss people brought their big cowbells.
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For every bad moment I've had, there have been 25 positives.
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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.'
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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.
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I played basketball in high school, and I love watching sports - I'll watch everything except maybe hockey.
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I used to go to the US Open on my birthdays and sit in the nosebleeds.
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No, actually I wanted to play five. I definitely wanted to try to lose that fourth set and test the waters in the fifth.
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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.