Andy Roddick quotes:

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

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.

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.

I played basketball in high school, and I love watching sports - I'll watch everything except maybe hockey.

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.

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.

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.

It's not so much that I don't like traveling, it's just that I love being home. I love being able to spend time with my friends.

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

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.

I think I've always had a decent perspective on wins and losses on the tennis court.

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.

I don't think about tennis 24/7. I enjoy time on the lake at my Florida home and just being lazy on the sofa.

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.

Tennis is a full-time job and not just the two hours that people see when we're on the court.

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.

I had a very detailed retirement plan, and I feel like I've met every aspect of it: a lot of golf, a lot of carbs, a lot of fried food, and some booze, occasionally - I've been completely committed... The results have shown.

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.

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 like grass, I enjoy it and it suits my game.

At one point in your life, you'll have the thing you want or the reasons why you don't.

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.

I used to go to the U.S. Open on my birthdays and sit in the nosebleeds.

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. As much as I was disappointed and frustrated at times, I'm not sure that I ever felt sorry for myself or begrudged anybody any of their success.

If I'm being honest, I think I'd be good at television; I just don't know if I am interested, because you are kind of geographically responsible to a location, and frankly I don't know if I retired from tennis so that I could sit around tennis tournaments 12 hours a day.

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.

Almost everybody's here doing the same thing. Who am I to come up with an excuse when there's 64 other players here doing the same thing? 63 others, sorry.

I think if I believe in something strongly enough, I'm pretty outspoken about it.

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've been good about keeping my nose to the grindstone.

I don't think anyone in their right mind takes me serious.

Stay in school kids or you'll end up being an umpire.

If there were rankings for press conferences, I wouldn't have to worry about dropping out of the top five, I hope.

I don't think I'm one of those guys who won't pick up a racket for three years...I love hitting tennis balls.

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 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.

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

When I was 18, 19, I was presented as the 'aw shucks' Nebraska kid who's coming up with a big serve, and then I flipped out a couple of times, and then I was ueber-brat, when I feel like there's parts of both, but I don't think I am either one, if that makes sense.

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

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

Stay in college, kids. Otherwise, you may become an umpire.

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 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.

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.

My entire career, I've been a worker.

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.

I'm convinced being a tennis analyst is the easiest job in the world.

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

My serve has killed a small dog ... I'm joking, I'm joking! The dog was huge!

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.

If nothing else, I'm a decent quote.

I've become better at the net. I've got a 135 mph serve so I'd be stupid not to follow that in. Overall I'm a better player than I was last year.

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.

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

When you make the schedule, you're not planning on playing deep into every single week, or at least I haven't in the past. I'm not physically or mentally ready to pick up my bags and go to Monte Carlo. I definitely have to look at what's best for my chances at (at the French Open).

I cook a little - I've never taken classes or anything - but enough to get by.

Is that the longest fifth set ever? It was? So, no, I've never played one longer than that!

I think the medical term for the injury is 'the bottom of my ass hurts.'

I'm gonna have to start winning some of the matches to call it a rivalry!

The whole point of team competition is to pick your teammates up,

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

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

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

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?

I'm an emotional player ... I like to leave it out there.

I always said if I had to pick one Grand Slam to win, it would be the U.S. Open.

The only pressure I feel is what I put on myself.

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

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

I still don't believe I won the U.S. Open. It's so far-fetched for me.

For every bad moment I've had, there have been 25 positives.

He [Vince Spadea] was about as down and out as you could see from a Top 20 player. Then to claw his way back through the minor leagues and do it the hard way where he wasn't young, wasn't getting wildcards, wasn't getting any help. I guess he decided he was just going to do it.

Why would I get a wild card into an American tournament, (as the) top-ranked American? Why would that happen? That makes too much sense. Maybe I should play more Davis Cup, that's the story. Oh wait, I do.

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

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

I'm just glad to see that Pete (Sampras) shut everyone up last year. That was satisfying. You can't bag on guys like Pete or Tiger (Woods) or Michael Jordan. They can play as long as they want, they can do whatever they want. Nobody should be able to tell them differently.

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

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 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.

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.

I don't care when people use the term 'one-Slam wonder' with me.

There have been great champions in every generation.

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

It's pretty high up there on the list. Being able to return a serve at that speed is one of the biggest things that separates the professionals from the recreational players.

I'm still missing that little something.

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.

No, actually I wanted to play five. I definitely wanted to try to lose that fourth set and test the waters in the fifth.

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

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.

I'm the most successful bad player ever.

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.'

I do understand that when someone gives you a [expletive] load of money, you take that money. Someone like Larry Ellison wants to invest into his event and make it the biggest possible, and he gets stopped by the ATP. If you're a start-up, what would make you want to navigate through that and to go through that firing line? How can you step into tennis with any confidence? It's the stupidest thing I've ever heard of.

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

There's no doubt there are issues with clay. Our issues have issues that are issues right now. That's not a secret.