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

There are 3 billion women in the world who don't look like supermodels and only 8 that do. — Anita Roddick

The leaders of globalization ... have tied themselves to a single measurement by which they judge success and failure ... They only measure money and the bottom line. — Anita Roddick

Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking. — 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

The word love is never mentioned in big business. — Anita 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 want to define success by redefining it. For me it isn't that solely mythical definition - glamour, allure, power of wealth, and the privilege from care. Any definition of success should be personal because it's so transitory. It's about shaping my own destiny. — Anita Roddick

I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market. — Anita Roddick

I run my company according to feminine principles, principles of caring, making intuitive decisions, not getting hung up on hierarchy or all those dreadfully boring business-school management ideas; having a sense of work as being part of your life, not separate from it; putting your labor where your love is; being responsible to the world in how you use your profits; recognizing the bottom line should stay at the bottom. — 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

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

It is a critical job of any entrepreneur to maximize creativity, and to build the kind of atmosphere around you that encourages people to have ideas. That means open structures, so that accepted thinking can be challenged. — 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

You educate people, especially young people, by stirring their passions, so you take every opportunity to grab the imagination of your employees, you get them to feel they are doing something important, that they are not a lone voice, that they are the most powerful and potent people on the planet. — Anita Roddick

Women are networkers, women hate hierarchy and especially entrepreneurs hate hierarchy because when they see hierarchy structured in they see rules and regulations are commonplace, and they want to tear it down. — Anita 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

You've got to be hungry - for ideas, to make things happen and to see your vision made into reality — Anita Roddick

Three components make an entrepreneur: the person, the idea and the resources to make it happen. — Anita Roddick

For me, campaigning and good business is also about putting forward solutions, not just opposing destructive practices or human rights abuses. — Anita Roddick

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

Economic globalization creates wealth, but only for the elite who benefit from the surge of consolidations, mergers, global scale technology, and financial activity. — Anita Roddick

If you think you're too small to make a difference, you've never been to bed with a mosquito. — Anita Roddick

The key to handling problems and conflict within an organization is to keep the channels of communication wide open. — Anita Roddick

If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management. — Anita Roddick

Free trade holds much of the blame for continued international conflict. Markets are said to possess wisdom that is somehow superior to man. Those of us in business who travel in the developing world see the results of such western wisdom and have a rumbling disquiet about much of what our economic institutions have bought into. — Anita 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'm still missing that little something. — Andy Roddick

Roddick can challenge him as well if he serves big consistently for the entire match. If he does that, then he is tough to break even for a guy like Federer. — Richard Krajicek

(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

The money that we make from the company goes into The Body Shop Foundation, which isn't one of those awful tax shelters like some in America. It just functions to take the money and give it away. — Anita Roddick

If you've got a partner that's supportive and you're doing something you enjoy it doesn't ever become a job or a burden. Its about community, new friendships, support mechanism. — Anita Roddick

There are only two ways of making money: the hard way and the very hard way! — Anita Roddick

Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice. — Anita Roddick

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

Successful entrepreneurs may hate hierarchies and structures and try to destroy them. They may garner the disapproval of MBAs for their creativity and wildness. But they have antennae in their heads. When they walk down the street anywhere in the world, they have their antennae out, evaluating how what they see can relate back to what they are doing. It might be packaging, a word, a poem, or even something in a completely different business. — Anita Roddick

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

If companies are in business solely to make money, no consumer can fully trust what they do or say. — Anita Roddick

Irritation is a great source of energy and creativity. — Anita Roddick

The movement for the environment really only started in the mid 1970's. — Anita Roddick

Advertising beauty products is easy. All you have to do is revile your customers by creating a disease called getting older, and then provide a remedy which does not work. — Anita Roddick

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

At The Body Shop we had always been measured by how many jobs we had created, and I got a major award from the Queen on that. — Anita Roddick

We have our values from the church, the temple, the mosque. Do not rob, do not murder. But our behaviour changes the minute we go into the corporate place. Suddenly all of this is irrelevant. — Anita Roddick

If you don't believe one person can make a difference, you have never been in bed with a mosquito. — Anita Roddick

A vision is something you see and others don't. Some people would say that's a pocket definition of lunacy. But it also defines entrepreneurial spirit. — Anita Roddick

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

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

When your back is against the wall financially, creative juices flow. — Anita 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

You have to look at leadership through the eyes of the followers and you have to live the message. What I have learned is that people become motivated when you guide them to the source of their own power and when you make heroes out of employees who personify what you want to see in the organization. — 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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 communicate with passion and passion persuades. — Anita Roddick

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

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

Let me tell you how the French seduce you. They are the most bloody seductive people on Earth. They are charming, they are well-mannered and they praise and flatter you. — Anita Roddick

If I can't do something for the public good, what the hell am I doing? — Anita Roddick

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

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

I want to work for a company that contributes to and is part of the community. I want something not just to invest in. I want something to believe in. — Anita Roddick

If you pretend that business is beyond morality, that's the kind of morality you get. — Anita Roddick

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

Never be seduced into believing it isn't the role of business to tackle the big issues, because it absolutely is. — Anita 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

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

Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer. — Anita Roddick

The growth of The Body Shop is testimony to the fact that you don't need to waste money on costly advertising campaigns to be successful. Instead, we've always relied on word of mouth and stories. — Anita Roddick

If I had to choose my driving force, it would be passion. — Anita Roddick

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

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

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

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

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