A biography for Andy Roddickhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“At one point in your life, you'll have the thing you want or the reasons why you don't.”
“I don't know that I've ever been someone who's interested in existing on tour. I have a lot of interests and a lot of other things that excite me.”
“I've got more out of tennis than I could ever give back.”
“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.”
“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.”
“When you come off something really disappointing, you want to come back and kind of regroup and get involved in something positive right away.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I don't really rate press conferences. It's not as though I leave the room fist-pumping my way down the corridor after a good one.”
“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.”
“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.”