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
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
I got to play in a crowd, play in Wimbledon finals, be the guy on a Davis Cup team for a while. Those are opportunities not a lot of people get. – Andy Roddick
Call me All-American, but I love Ham and Cheese sandwiches. And not just any old ham and cheese sandwich… My mother’s is the best. I’ve tried many times to make these sandwiches on my own, but it’s never the same. – 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
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
If there were rankings for press conferences, I wouldn’t have to worry about dropping out of the top five, I hope. – Andy Roddick
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. – Andy Roddick
I’ve pretty much been portrayed as every style thing you can be. After Wimbledon you are Andy Everyman, who everybody is rooting for. I think the meat and potatoes of who I am hasn’t been covered yet. – Andy Roddick
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. – Andy Roddick
I like playing tennis. I’ve always enjoyed the process of being a tennis player; I’m just not sure that I enjoyed the travel at the end, and my body didn’t recover from the day-to-day grind. – Andy Roddick
The selfish thing about an athlete is you always look at the side of things where you say I could’ve done that better. – Andy Roddick
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. – Andy Roddick
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
I’ll never lose my roots. I think I’m too close to my family for that. I still make my trip back to Nebraska every year, and I still love going back to Texas where I grew up, as well. I’ve just kind of had to mature a little bit more and get used to a little bit different style of life. – Andy Roddick
I think it’s foolish to think that if you’ve done something for so long, you can kind of delete it out of your memory bank or delete every emotion attached to it. I knew when I retired what that meant. – Andy 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
Having two older brothers is a healthy reminder that you’re always closer to the bottom than you are to the top. – Andy Roddick
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
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. – Andy Roddick
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