Words matter. These are the best Andy Roddick Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
You can get the true essence of New Yorkers by just hanging out in Central Park.
Tennis is a full-time job and not just the two hours that people see when we’re on the court.
I’ve got more out of tennis than I could ever give back.
I cook a little – I’ve never taken classes or anything – but enough to get by.
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.
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’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.
In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go.
I think I’ve always had a decent perspective on wins and losses on the tennis court.
When I was 18, 19, I was presented as the ‘aw shucks’ Nebraska kid who’s coming up with a big serve, and then I flipped out a couple of times, and then I was ueber-brat, when I feel like there’s parts of both, but I don’t think I am either one, if that makes sense.
Do you have to be like a second-grade dropout to be an umpire? Did you go to school until you were 8 years old? I think you quit school before you were 10. Stay in school kids or you’ll end up being an umpire.
You know, you can only throw in so many haymakers before one misses and you get knocked out.
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.
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.
There have been great champions in every generation.
You ask me a question, I’m going to give you an honest answer.
Stay in school kids or you’ll end up being an umpire.
If I’m being honest, I think I’d be good at television; I just don’t know if I am interested, because you are kind of geographically responsible to a location, and frankly I don’t know if I retired from tennis so that I could sit around tennis tournaments 12 hours a day.
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.
The selfish thing about an athlete is you always look at the side of things where you say I could’ve done that better.
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 don’t have much interest in being on a senior tour. I don’t think I retired so that I could be on tour.
My entire career, I’ve been a worker.
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’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.
