Andy Roddick Quotes

My foundation is based on helping children, and I hand-pick projects that are close to my heart and home.

A philanthropic venture requires all the energy, knowledge and money from its founder that a company requires from the leadership team.

Sometimes when I speak to groups or I'm interviewed by a journalist, I ask them to imagine their communities without Girl Scouts - to imagine the thousands of food drives and clothing and toy collections that would never take place if not for Girl Scouts.

I definitely know I'm going to be working a lot more with my foundation when it comes to developing the kids in Jamaica.

Points of Light - through our affiliates in 250 U.S. communities and 15 international sites - engages 4 million volunteers in 30 million hours of service each year touching countless lives.

I am so honored to be working with A Place Called Home as their ambassador to bring awareness to the incredible services and programs which benefits kids in the Los Angeles community.

I'm obviously very involved with my own charity and foundation that I work with. Obviously, I'm very passionate about that.

I'm very, very involved in charities involving youth.

In 1995, I founded a storytelling program for children called Neighborhood Bridges in collaboration with the Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis, which is 15 elementary schools in the Twin Cities.

One of my dreams in life is to do fund-raising for the youth.

I've also been working with the Challengers Club in the inner city of Los Angeles for 15 years now, I guess, and it's essentially an inner-city recreation club for boys and girls.

I am involved in a lot of nonprofits. And when I reached the ripe old age of 60, I wanted to provide leadership to some I had been involved in.

I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.

I'm starting the Juicy J Scholarship Foundation. I'm going to start doing a lot of different things trying to help out and give back.

I want to create my own charity, getting inner-city kids to read more. And I want to produce my own films.

Doing and making positive programming for young people is so important to me, and I will keep doing it.

I love being part of campaigns and events that are working with kids and just sharing my personal experiences.

When we go and play live... we go and we work with like different organizations: the food banks, homeless shelters, children's hospitals or different homes that are reaching out to people. And just to actually go and say, 'Hey, don't just hear me play, come to my concert, that's it, hope you have a good night.' It's like, 'Hey, come be a part.'

Since the LeBron James Family Foundation shifted its focus on education, it's been important to us to document the innovative work we're doing.

Obviously I'll still be involved in organizations like the USO and Wounded Warriors, which will always be a big part of my life. But I like to motivate people, and I like working with children. I could go anywhere and do anything.

My dad had a spell when he came out of coaching doing some work with underprivileged children on quite a rough council estate in Southampton to help the kids and take them out to places. I used to go along with him. I used to play football with them, mess about with them. I was only 13 or 14 and became good friends with them.

Reading has helped motivate me to become a spokesperson for programs like the WrestleMania Reading Challenge. It has motivated me to become more involved in my community and to keep learning new things.

Giants of Africa holds such a special place in my heart. It's not just another non-profit organization - this is personal. What started as a dream to give back to the country that raised me has since blossomed into an intercontinental mission to uplift youth across the diaspora, and shed light on the greatest part of Africa: its people.

I have an excellent team, a great manager, and we're going to put something together: we're going to start a foundation, and we're going to change lives.

The Red Cross Gala is unique. There's great history there. It's the highlight of the summer in terms of social and charity events.