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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.
Andy Roddick / Tennis Player
Home
Being Lazy
Florida
Lakes
Lazy
Tennis
Thinking
Lake
Sofa
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Having two older brothers is a healthy reminder that you're always closer to the bottom than you are to the top.
Andy Roddick / Tennis Player
Inspirational
Sports
Bottom
Brother
Healthy
Brothers
Closer
Older Brothers
Reminder
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If there were rankings for press conferences, I wouldn't have to worry about dropping out of the top five, I hope.
Andy Roddick / Tennis Player
Conferences
Dropping
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My backhand is definitely a lot more solid and consistent. There were times when I couldn't hit it into the ocean.
Andy Roddick / Tennis Player
Ocean
Consistent
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There's no doubt there are issues with clay. Our issues have issues that are issues right now. That's not a secret.
Andy Roddick / Tennis Player
Doubt
Issues
Tennis
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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 / Tennis Player
Athlete
Done Always Where
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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 / Tennis Player
Balls
Hitting
Innocent
Just Do It
People
Tennis
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No, actually I wanted to play five. I definitely wanted to try to lose that fourth set and test the waters in the fifth.
Andy Roddick / Tennis Player
Play
Tennis
Water
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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.
Andy Roddick / Tennis Player
Keys
Should Have
Tennis
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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 / Tennis Player
Conferences
Fists
Rate
Rooms
Way
Corridor
Press
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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.
Andy Roddick / Tennis Player
Grasp
Pretty Good
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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 / Tennis Player
Games
Improvement
Okay
Return
Thinking
Transition
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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.
Andy Roddick / Tennis Player
Being Played
Tennis
Want
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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?
Andy Roddick / Tennis Player
Fake
Firsts
Should
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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 / Tennis Player
Sports
Disappointing
Kind
Want
Regroup
Right Away
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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.
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Fraternity
Guy
Secret
Slam
Winning
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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 / Tennis Player
Opportunity
Finals
Play
Team
Wimbledon
Davis
Crowd
Cup
Davis Cup
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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.
Andy Roddick / Tennis Player
Mph
Player
Stupid
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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 / Tennis Player
Interest
Knows
Me Know Someone
Me Know Things
Excite
Existing
Tour
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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 / Tennis Player
Home
Accomplish
Guy
Needs
Tournament
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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.
Andy Roddick / Tennis Player
Player
Sorry
Tennis
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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.
Andy Roddick / Tennis Player
Able
Lists
Player
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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.
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Gun
People
Two
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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 / Tennis Player
People
Return
Used
Volley
Hit
Round
Hear
Serve
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I've been pretty good about keeping my nose to the grindstone. I feel like I won a lot of matches from hard work and persistence, even maybe when I had better options as far as shot-making.
Andy Roddick / Tennis Player
Hard Work
Persistence
Work Good Hard Work
Matches
Nose
Options
Pretty Good
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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 / Tennis Player
Day To Day
Enjoyed
Grind
Tennis
Tennis Player
Recover
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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 / Tennis Player
Covered
Everyman
Meat
Style
Thinking
Who I Am
Wimbledon
Andy
Portrayed
Rooting
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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 / Tennis Player
Emotion
Foolish
Retired
Attached
Bank
Delete
Memory
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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 / Tennis Player
Austin
Tennis
Yesterday
Youth
Announced
Center
Immediately
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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.
Andy Roddick / Tennis Player
Cards
Play
Waiting
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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 / Tennis Player
Quit
School Kids
Umpire
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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 / Tennis Player
Kind
Poke
Thinking
Weapons
Content
Back Know More
Weapon
Letting
Rallies
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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 / Tennis Player
Cheese
Cheese Sandwiches
Cheesy
Ham
Mother
Love Best Me
All-American
Love Best Mother
Sandwich
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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.
Andy Roddick / Tennis Player
Missing
Tennis
Trying
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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.
Andy Roddick / Tennis Player
Aspect
Booze
Carbs
Committed
Golf
Results
Retirement
Detailed
Fried
Occasionally
Shown
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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.
Andy Roddick / Tennis Player
Balls
Hitting
Innocent
Seeing
Tennis
Time Passes
Young Guys
Love Time Game
Game
Miss
Watch
Guys
Parts
Relationships
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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.
Andy Roddick / Tennis Player
Flipped
Nebraska
Aw
Presented
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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.
Andy Roddick / Tennis Player
Being Honest
Location
Retired
Tennis
Tournaments
Good I Am Day
Frankly
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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.
Andy Roddick / Tennis Player
Long
Play
Years
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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.
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Mean
Thinking
Years
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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.
Andy Roddick / Tennis Player
Down And
League
Player
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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).
Andy Roddick / Tennis Player
Bags
Looks
Past
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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 / Tennis Player
Grew
Little Bit
Mature
Nebraska
Roots
Texas
Life Love Family
Close
Just Kind
Lose
Trip
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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.
Andy Roddick / Tennis Player
Disappointed
Finals
Frustrated
Guy
Sorry
Team
Wimbledon
Davis
Sure
Anybody
Cup
Davis Cup
Opportunities
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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 / Tennis Player
Home
Guilt
Insane
Player
Tennis
Thinking
Uneasy
Do Your Best
End Of The Day
Go Home
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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.'
Andy Roddick / Tennis Player
Jobs
Should Have
Winning
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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.
Andy Roddick / Tennis Player
Events
Giving
Tennis
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