Best Roddick Quotes & Sayings

We are essentially outsiders and that is the best definition of an entrepreneur I have ever come across. — Anita Roddick

We entrepreneurs are loners, vagabonds, troublemakers. Success is simply a matter of finding and surrounding ourselves with those open-minded and clever souls who can take our insanity and put it to good use. — Anita Roddick

I wake up every morning thinking ... this is my last day. And I jam everything into it. There's no time for mediocrity. This is no damned dress rehearsal. — Anita 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

We can't have self-government without the self-confidence that is at the root of it. — Anita 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

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

One of the most intriguing things in management and in business is the role of storytelling - people need the anecdotes to do the work that they do. — Anita Roddick

I don't want our success to be measured only by financial yardsticks, or by our distribution or number of shops. What I want to be celebrated for - and it's going to be tough in a business environment - is how good we are to our employees and how we benefit our community. It's a different bottom line. — Anita Roddick

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

I think that business practices would improve immeasurably if they were guided by "feminine" pinciples, qualities like love, care, and intuition. — Anita 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

To me the desire to create and to have control over your own life, irrespective of the politics of the time or social structures, has always been a part of the human spirit. What I did not fully realize was that work could open the doors to my heart. — Anita Roddick

I have always found that my view of success has been iconoclastic: success to me is not about money or status or fame, its about finding a livelihood that brings me joy and self-sufficiency and a sense of contributing to the world. — Anita Roddick

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

It is true that there is a fine line between entrepreneurship and insanity. Crazy people see and feel things that others don't. But you have to believe that everything is possible. If you believe it, those around you will believe it too. — Anita Roddick

I believe in businesses where you engage in creative thinking, and where you form some of your deepest relationships. If it isn't about the production of the human spirit, we are in big trouble. — Anita Roddick

I'm the most successful bad player ever. — 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

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

Ninety-nine per cent of what we say is about values. I firmly believe that ethical capitalism is the best way of changing society for the better. — Anita Roddick

Business is not financial science, it's about trading.. buying and selling. It's about creating a product or service so good that people will pay for it. — Anita 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

The freedom that comes with globalization is freedom for the rich and powerful nations to further exploit and further marginalize those at the bottom of the social ladder. — Anita Roddick

I can't bear to be around people who are bland or bored or uninterested (or to employ them). — Anita Roddick

We communicate with passion and passion persuades. — Anita 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

We are honest about our methods and our mistakes. We are not perfect - it isn't possible to be perfect - but we are trying to go in the right direction and in those circumstances, it's best not to mystify what we are trying to do. — Anita Roddick

Running a company on market research is like driving while looking in the rear-view mirror. — Anita 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

Every time you buy something consider it a vote of confidence in the company that produced it. — Anita Roddick

I have no interest in being the biggest, the most profitable or the largest retailer. I just want The Body Shop to be the best, most breathlessly exciting company - and one that changes the way business is carried out. — Anita Roddick

I think it is completely immoral for a shop to trade in the middle of a community, to take money and make profits from that community and then ignore the existence of that community, its needs and problems. — Anita Roddick

You persuade people with passion, so you've got to have a product or service you feel emotionally charged about. Then you can tell stories about it that will inspire others. — Anita Roddick

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

To succeed you have to believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a reality. — Anita Roddick

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

Values carry the message of shared purposes, standards and conceptions of what is worth living for and what is worth striving for. — Anita Roddick

Retiring isn't even a word I'd understand. Taking what makes you feel alive, and everyone's looking for ways of making them feel alive, in whatever they do - relationships, business or work - and not just being a voice for a money making business. — Anita Roddick

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