Andy Roddick Quotes
( Photo credit: Art Seitz ©2009 )
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 Roddick 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 Roddick, 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 Roddick, 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 Roddick, 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 Roddick, 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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