Best Andy Roddick Quotes & Sayings

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

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. — Andy Roddick

Tennis is a full-time job and not just the two hours that people see when we're on the court. — Andy Roddick

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. — Andy Roddick

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

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

(Andy Roddick's) a different kind of guy. I don't spend a lot of time with him. His coach in the past (Tarik Benhabiles), I didn't have a lot of time for at all. He was a bigger problem than Andy. — Lleyton Hewitt

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

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

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

I always said if I had to pick one Grand Slam to win, it would be the U.S. Open. — Andy Roddick

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

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

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

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

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

My entire career, I've been a worker. — Andy Roddick

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

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

My worst days are still pretty good days. That's something I might lose in the moment sometimes, but I have a pretty good grasp of it. — Andy Roddick

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. — Andy Roddick

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

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

Just look at Andy Roddick. He has the biggest serve on the men's tour and he's not the No. 1 because other parts of his game are not so good. I think it's more important to have the desire and the other parts of your game. — Elena Dementieva

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

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

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

If there were rankings for press conferences, I wouldn't have to worry about dropping out of the top five, I hope. — Andy Roddick

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

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

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

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

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

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

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). — Andy Roddick

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