Andy Roddick

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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 you come off something really disappointing, you want to come back and kind of regroup and get involved in something positive right away.

The selfish thing about an athlete is you always look at the side of things where you say I could've done that better.

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

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