Andy Roddick Quotes

When I started to play, all the coaches said it didn't make sense for me to try to play tennis because I was too small. They said I would never make it. But this was something that motivated me. I really wanted to make it.

You can not reduce issues to simple yes or no answers in a plebiscite.

The issues are too complicated for government leaders to discuss, and too important for bureaucrats.

One of the failures of our politics is that it has been simplistic.

To those people doubting Serena Williams, writing her off - do not do that to a champion.

When I lost the Wimbledon 2012 final, I didn't know if I'd ever win a slam.

The world is complicated. But does every problem require a complicated solution?

Marriage? I don't know what I really think about marriage. I'm a bit confused on that issue.

Well, the most important thing a president will be is commander-in-chief. And that requires having an understanding of the complex issues on foreign policy. Foreign policy presents us often with hard choices, not black or white choices.

Putting labels on people is so counter-productive. Most of us on some issues could be considered conservative, on other issues could be considered progressive, on other issues might be thought of as being moderate, on other issues might be thought of as being rather forthright.

I think the war in the Mideast, how we got into it and how we're going to address the current problems, are issues that every American should be concerned about.

That [American exceptionalism] is a reaction to the inability of people to understand global complexity or important issues like American energy dependency. Therefore, they search for simplistic sources of comfort and clarity. And the people that they are now selecting to be, so to speak, the spokespersons of their anxieties are, in most cases, stunningly ignorant.

No one doubts that pure libertarianism is simple, but that's just why it remains on the ideological fringe - because it boils down the most difficult questions in human affairs to a simple equation, a What Would the Market Do bumper sticker.

The most important thing I have done is to combine something esoteric with a practical issue that affects many people.

There is no problem so complicated that you can't find a very simple answer to it if you look at it right.

I feel it’s important to talk about the complex issues affecting us. And these are complex issues. I think it’s insulting to an audience to make them sit and watch a film and then give them a message in one sentence.

If we were to focus our attention on one particular problem and neglect the others, we would fail to see the true scope of our current global issues. The changes made in that form of thinking are limited and self-contained.

I think that when in doubt about the truth of an issue, it's safer and in better taste to select the least numerous of the adversaries.

There's no doubt Milos Raonic will be a very tough final opponent, after all he beat [ Roger] Federer on Centre Court to get there.

I have often been amused by our vulgar tendency to take complex issues, with solutions at neither extreme of a continuum of possibilities, and break them into dichotomies, assigning one group to one pole and the other to an opposite end, with no acknowledgment of subtleties and intermediate positions and nearly always with moral opprobrium attached to opponents.

About specific social issues, there is a great deal to say that departs very far from truism and is, accordingly, significant and controversial.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is still theoretically possible ... faith is the readiness to act in a cause the prosperous issue of which is not certified to us in advance.

In a personalized world, important but complex or unpleasant issues are less likely to come to our attention at all.

The issue of faith is not so much whether we believe in God, but whether we believe the God we believe in. (p.35)

Cynicism formulates issues clearly, but only to dismiss them.