Andy Roddick Quotes

I'd much rather win in three or four sets than go the distance all the time; I seem to put everyone through the wringer quite a bit.

When you play against Rafa, you have to play two hours and 40, 45 minutes.

I am a big fan of players like Roger Federer, Andy Murray, Novak Djokovic and Leander Paes. I would love to see them play.

People talk about the drama of the set that goes on and on. But it leaves one guy exhausted for the next round, it's horrible for the players waiting to come on court, and it has the potential to mess up the schedule for everyone.

Tim Henman has the all-time Betty Crocker draw. We're talking Easy Bake Oven.

How fitting [it would be if Roger Federer played the first match under the roof] ... he has become known in recent years as the King of Wimbledon ... and this is the day after of the death of the King of Pop.

Sometimes when I need to relax, I just watch in the stands how people are enjoying the tennis or what they are eating.

Every time I tour, I find a pro - I go to the local tennis center in that country, wherever it is and I play.

The most exciting match I ever played was the 1974 US Open final against Billie Jean King.

I'm playing Kyle Edmund, who is so solid. He's an unbelievable player. He goes for his shots. He's not afraid to take it to the guy.

I've always loved Charleston. It's always been one of my favorite tournaments.

Against Novak, it's really tough for me to play, I mean, because he doesn't give me any time. I don't really like to play against him because he has a game style which doesn't fit me at all.

I play quite a bit of tennis on the side.

I'd love to win Wimbledon.

Ivan Lendl was the best player I ever played. He was the first guy to bring the game to more of a power level and you could know that if he played really well you could get blown off court and that wouldn't happen against John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors or even Bjorn Borg or Guillermo Vilas.

Winning two Wimbledons is very nice, no matter what.

Can I win Wimbledon? Well, why not?

I want to play tennis and fornicate.

The tennis challenger starts strong but soon loses confidence in his playing. The champion racks up the games. But in the final set, when the challenger has nothing left to lose, he becomes relaxed again, insouciant, daring. Suddenly he's playing like the devil and the champion must work hard to get those last points.

Science fiction is a dialogue, a tennis match, in which the Idea is volleyed from one side of the net to the other. Ridiculous to say that someone 'stole' an idea: no, no, a thousand times no. The point is the volley, and how it's carried, and what statement is made by the answering 'statement.' In other words — if Burroughs initiates a time-gate and says it works randomly, and then Norton has time gates confounded with the Perilous Seat, the Siege Perilous of the Round Table, and locates it in a bar on a rainy night — do you see both the humor and the volley in the tennis match?

Bobby Riggs was one of my heroes. I admired him. That's one of the reasons I beat him - because I respected him.

I've played with Mardy Fish a lot. Played with him, I think, two years ago in one of the weekend rounds.

There's no better stage than the U.S. Open for me

Of all my achievements in tennis, I'm probably as proud of my record on clay courts as any of my Wimbledon, U.S. Open or French singles titles.

When you come off the court and you feel like you were losing the whole match, and all of a sudden you pulled it out, you know, it's those moments that you feel you've trained for and you work hard for. Just lucky to get through.