Andy Roddick Quotes
( Photo credit: Art Seitz ©2009 )
October 7, 2011: "Tennis analyst is the easiest job in the world because whatever the person does, if it works you just say that’s what’s good, and if it doesn’t work, you guys go, ‘He should have done the other things.’…It just doesn’t take much thought. If I’m grinding and I’m winning, you guys are like, ‘He’s reinvented himself.’ If I’m playing like crap and pushing, then, you know, ‘He’s horrible and he needs to hit the ball.’"
— Andy Roddick, telling ESPN broadcaster Chris Fowler he has a low opinion of TV tennis analysts.
August 24, 2011: "The guy [1980s bad boy John McEnroe] is still getting endorsements because he was allowed to throw things. I understand where [umpire Carlos Bernardes] is coming from, but at a certain point, you know, you hit a tennis ball into a stadium, someone goes home with a souvenir, and it [penalizing the player] pretty much ruins the match from there. Seems counterproductive. At a certain point, I would love it if we got out of our own way."
— Andy Roddick, defending his whacking a ball into the stands at Cincinnati and contending tennis players should get a little more leeway, rather than being penalized, in such situations.
August 26, 2009: "I think I've been portrayed as every single type of person - good, bad, ugly, rude, nice. This is kind of the first time that it's been presented in a light that I'm a kind of hard-working, everyday-Joe-type tennis player trying to make good."
— Andy on his evolving image.
September 24, 2008: "I don't think you could draw up a tougher scenario than playing Nadal away in front of this crowd. It's probably the toughest match you can think of. Even Roger [Federer] on grass, at least you can serve and the points are a little quicker."
— Andy after Rafael Nadal routed him 6-4, 6-0, 6-4 on clay in Madrid in their crucial Davis Cup match.
April 7 , 2008: "That's what you wake up for, the moments you go to the practice court for. You can have low moments, but those 10, 15 seconds after a big win make up for a lot of bad days. Not all of them, but a lot of them."
— Andy, who upset No. 1 Roger Federer 7-6, 4-6, 6-3 in the quarterfinals of the Sony Ericsson Open, after losing 11 straight matches to him.
2005::
"Neither will you!"
-- Andy during an on-line ESPN-sponsored chat, retorting to a barb, “You suck and you will never win a major again, so what do you have to say about that?"
January 2, 2005::
"We thought this was a way to bring tennis back to the
people. We're not the NBA or the NFL with this huge
marketing machine behind us. It's not like there's a
home crowd you know will come to all the games. In tennis
a lot of [the promotion] is up to the individual players."
-- Andy, world No. 2,
who with fellow Davis Cuppers Mardy Fish, Bob Bryan
and Mike Bryan, rented a bus, drove around Middle
America and played exhibitions and held clinics at
public tennis complexes for a week in December, talking
to Sports Illustrated.
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