Top 60 Andy Roddick Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “At one point in your life, you’ll have the thing you want or the reasons why you don’t.”

— Andy Roddick

2. “I’m the most successful bad player ever.”

— Andy Roddick

3. “Once you get to a certain level, anybody can beat anybody else on any given day.”

— Andy Roddick

4. “I’m still missing that little something.”

— Andy Roddick

5. “Stay in school kids or you’ll end up being an umpire.”

— Andy Roddick

6. “If nothing else, I’m a decent quote.”

— Andy Roddick

7. “For every bad moment I’ve had, there have been 25 positives.”

— Andy Roddick

8. “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.”

— Andy Roddick

9. “Umpiring, the only job in the world where you can screw up on a daily basis and still have one!”

— Andy Roddick

10. “It seems with every match I win, I get better-looking to other people.”

— Andy Roddick

11. “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

12. “Is that the longest fifth set ever? It was? So, no, I’ve never played one longer than that!”

— Andy Roddick

13. “I’ve been good about keeping my nose to the grindstone.”

— Andy Roddick

14. “I’m gonna have to start winning some of the matches to call it a rivalry!”

— Andy Roddick

15. “My backhand is definitely a lot more solid and consistent. There were times when I couldn’t hit it into the ocean.”

— Andy Roddick

16. “In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go.”

— Andy Roddick

17. “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

18. “Having two older brothers is a healthy reminder that you’re always closer to the bottom than you are to the top.”

— Andy Roddick

19. “I don’t care when people use the term ‘one-Slam wonder’ with me.”

— Andy Roddick

20. “I used to, like, hit for a half hour and then go eat Cheetos the rest of the day, come out and drill forehands. Now I’m really trying to make it happen, being professional, really going for it, and I miss my Cheetos.”

— Andy Roddick

21. “I think the medical term for the injury is ‘the bottom of my ass hurts.’”

— Andy Roddick

22. “When you come off something really disappointing, you want to come back and kind of regroup and get involved in something positive right away.”

— Andy Roddick

23. “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

24. “You can get the true essence of New Yorkers by just hanging out in Central Park.”

— Andy Roddick

25. “I definitely think the European weather has more of a factor than the European clay. I think the European weather changes from week to week, I mean, last year it was sunny and hot and this week it’s kind of playing tricks on us a little bit. I definitely think that is a factor.”

— Andy Roddick

26. “I like grass, I enjoy it and it suits my game.”

— Andy Roddick

27. “If I wore a sleeveless shirt, people would try to feed me after the match.”

— Andy Roddick

28. “The key to the match might have been his serving. Maybe I should have concentrated harder on watching them go by me, I don’t know.”

— Andy Roddick

29. “I kind of know youre only as good as your last result.”

— Andy Roddick

30. “There’s no home team in tennis, no built-in fan base, so the players have to step up and do their fair share.”

— Andy Roddick

31. “I want everyone to look back and think that I was awesome.”

— Andy Roddick

32. “No, if I wore a sleeveless shirt, people would try to feed me after the match. If you got the guns, go for it. I got two breadsticks sticking out of my sleeve. I’ll stick with sleeves.”

— Andy Roddick

33. “You know, you can only throw in so many haymakers before one misses and you get knocked out.”

— Andy Roddick

34. “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

35. “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

36. “I think I’ve always had a decent perspective on wins and losses on the tennis court.”

— Andy Roddick

37. “I’m not the savior of men’s tennis in America. I’m just a kid trying to win a few matches.”

— Andy Roddick

38. “I cook a little – I’ve never taken classes or anything – but enough to get by.”

— Andy Roddick

39. “There’s no doubt there are issues with clay. Our issues have issues that are issues right now. That’s not a secret.”

— Andy Roddick

40. “The only pressure I feel is what I put on myself.”

— Andy Roddick

41. “I played basketball in high school, and I love watching sports – I’ll watch everything except maybe hockey.”

— Andy Roddick

42. “I don’t want to live and die with every point that’s being played out there now. I’m going to let my coach live and die with every point.”

— Andy Roddick

43. “I don’t think anyone in their right mind takes me serious.”

— Andy Roddick

44. “I’ll be the first to admit it, the life I’m leading is basically a joke. I should probably be cooler about it, but I can’t fake it, you know?”

— Andy Roddick

45. “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

46. “I don’t have much interest in being on a senior tour. I don’t think I retired so that I could be on tour.”

— Andy Roddick

47. “I try not to take myself too seriously. I like to have a good time.”

— Andy Roddick

48. “If I can break one out of every three return games, I’m going to give myself a shot in a lot of matches.”

— Andy Roddick

49. “One of the cool things I remember is the Swiss people brought their big cowbells.”

— Andy Roddick

50. “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.”

— Andy Roddick