Top 100 Roddick Quotes
#1. He [Andy Roddick] doesn't make mistakes, only when he has to.
Andrew Castle
#2. Roddick can challenge him as well if he serves big consistently for the entire match. If he does that, then he is tough to break even for a guy like Federer.
Richard Krajicek
#3. I know Andy Roddick's probably tired about me talking about how many times I beat him when we were kids.
Drew Brees
#4. Anita Roddick was amazing. Her presence in a room was full of light, and everything she worked to achieve still resonates now.
Annie Lennox
#5. Roddick has good presence on the court and has so much adrenalin.
Richard Krajicek
#6. (Andy Roddick's) a different kind of guy. I don't spend a lot of time with him. His coach in the past (Tarik Benhabiles), I didn't have a lot of time for at all. He was a bigger problem than Andy.
Lleyton Hewitt
#7. The person who inspired me the most was a friend of mine, Anita Roddick. I know that Anita wasn't known to be an ardent feminist, but she truly was.
Annie Lennox
#8. Just look at Andy Roddick. He has the biggest serve on the men's tour and he's not the No. 1 because other parts of his game are not so good. I think it's more important to have the desire and the other parts of your game.
Elena Dementieva
#9. For every bad moment I've had, there have been 25 positives.
Andy Roddick
#10. A great advantage I had when I started The Body Shop was that I had never been to business school.
Anita Roddick
#11. Economic globalization creates wealth, but only for the elite who benefit from the surge of consolidations, mergers, global scale technology, and financial activity.
Anita Roddick
#12. Let me tell you how the French seduce you. They are the most bloody seductive people on Earth. They are charming, they are well-mannered and they praise and flatter you.
Anita Roddick
#13. Tennis is a full-time job and not just the two hours that people see when we're on the court.
Andy Roddick
#14. Maybe this is what the future will look like: fresh, clean water will be so rare it will be guarded by armies. Water as the next oil - the next resource worth going to war over.
Anita Roddick
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. I traveled enormously during the 1960's, when you measured everything by where you traveled and what you did as travelers.
Anita Roddick
#18. I'm not going to go run and hide because I'm catching some heat. I'm not going to stay at home and pout.
Andy Roddick
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. Once you get to a certain level, anybody can beat anybody else on any given day.
Andy Roddick
#22. Look at the Quakers - they were excellent business people that never lied, never stole; they cared for their employees and the community which gave them the wealth. They never took more money out than they put back in.
Anita Roddick
#23. It seems with every match I win, I get better-looking to other people.
Andy Roddick
#24. Corporate crime kills far more people and costs taxpayers far more money than street crime.
Anita Roddick
#25. 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
#26. We are honest about our methods and our mistakes. We are not perfect - it isn't possible to be perfect - but we are trying to go in the right direction and in those circumstances, it's best not to mystify what we are trying to do.
Anita Roddick
#27. I don't have much interest in being on a senior tour. I don't think I retired so that I could be on tour.
Andy Roddick
#28. 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
#29. There are 3 billion women in the world who don't look like supermodels and only 8 that do.
Anita Roddick
#30. I've always, for whatever my faults have been, felt like I've never done anything halfway.
Andy Roddick
#31. There have been great champions in every generation.
Andy Roddick
#32. It is true that there is a fine line between entrepreneurship and insanity. Crazy people see and feel things that others don't. But you have to believe that everything is possible. If you believe it, those around you will believe it too.
Anita Roddick
#33. 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
#34. To succeed you have to believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a reality.
Anita Roddick
#35. If companies are in business solely to make money, no consumer can fully trust what they do or say.
Anita Roddick
#36. 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
#37. I think it's just fear of death. I can't bear to go to sleep. There's very little, you know, between an entrepreneur and a crazy person.
Anita Roddick
#38. If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management.
Anita Roddick
#39. I have no interest in being the biggest, the most profitable or the largest retailer. I just want The Body Shop to be the best, most breathlessly exciting company - and one that changes the way business is carried out.
Anita Roddick
#40. If you think you're too small to make a difference, you've never been to bed with a mosquito.
Anita Roddick
#41. 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
#42. 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.
Andy Roddick
#43. My passionate belief is that business can be fun, it can be conducted with love and a powerful force for good.
Anita Roddick
#44. Advertising beauty products is easy. All you have to do is revile your customers by creating a disease called getting older, and then provide a remedy which does not work.
Anita Roddick
#45. I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently ... This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.
Anita Roddick
#46. I'm an emotional player ... I like to leave it out there.
Andy Roddick
#47. The most exciting thing happening in business is the rise of vigilante consumers.
Anita Roddick
#49. The predominant idea behind globalization, in its most virulent form, is an unpleasant kind of social Darwinism - that the world is for winners not losers, that only the successful count, that money is considerably more important than votes.
Anita Roddick
#50. How can you ennoble the spirit when you are selling something as inconsequential as a face cream?
Anita Roddick
#51. Be courageous. It's one of the only places left uncrowded
Anita Roddick
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. Whatever you do, be different - that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can't think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you're different, you will stand out.
Anita Roddick
#55. If I wore a sleeveless shirt, people would try to feed me after the match.
Andy Roddick
#56. I believe in businesses where you engage in creative thinking, and where you form some of your deepest relationships. If it isn't about the production of the human spirit, we are in big trouble.
Anita Roddick
#57. 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
#58. If trade undermines life, narrows it or impoverishes it, then it can destroy the world. If it enhances life, then it can better the world.
Anita Roddick
#59. Traditionally, the role of the individual was to conform to the organization. In the future the organization will have to conform to the needs of the individual.
Anita Roddick
#60. You've got to be hungry - for ideas, to make things happen and to see your vision made into reality
Anita Roddick
#61. If I had to name a driving force in my life, I would name PASSION every time
Anita Roddick
#62. Every time you buy something consider it a vote of confidence in the company that produced it.
Anita Roddick
#63. There's no home team in tennis, no built-in fan base, so the players have to step up and do their fair share.
Andy Roddick
#64. I don't think I'm one of those guys who won't pick up a racket for three years ... I love hitting tennis balls.
Andy Roddick
#65. I think if I believe in something strongly enough, I'm pretty outspoken about it.
Andy Roddick
#66. I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market.
Anita Roddick
#67. Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.
Anita Roddick
#68. First, you have to have fun. Second, you have to put love where your labour is. Third, you have to go in the opposite direction to everyone else.
Anita Roddick
#70. I have always found that my view of success has been iconoclastic: success to me is not about money or status or fame, its about finding a livelihood that brings me joy and self-sufficiency and a sense of contributing to the world.
Anita Roddick
#71. I don't care when people use the term 'one-Slam wonder' with me.
Andy Roddick
#72. Cynicism is what passes for insight when courage is lacking.
Anita Roddick
#73. I'd have opened a bloody library if I'd wanted to be quiet.
Anita Roddick
#74. 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
#75. My serve has killed a small dog ... I'm joking, I'm joking! The dog was huge!
Andy Roddick
#76. Business itself is now the most powerful force for change in the world today, richer and faster by far than most governments. And what is it doing with this power? It is using free trade, the most powerful weapon at its disposal, to tighten its grip on the globe.
Anita Roddick
#77. Entrepreneurs are visionaries - they see things other people don't see.
Anita Roddick
#78. 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
#79. You know, you can only throw in so many haymakers before one misses and you get knocked out.
Andy Roddick
#80. If civilization is going to survive, business and policy-makers must move on, to find within themselves more developed emotions than fear or greed.
Anita Roddick
#81. I want to define success by redefining it. For me it isn't that solely mythical definition - glamour, allure, power of wealth, and the privilege from care. Any definition of success should be personal because it's so transitory. It's about shaping my own destiny.
Anita Roddick
#82. Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.
Anita Roddick
#83. When you run an entrepreneurial business, you have hurry sickness - you don't look back, you advance and consolidate. But it is such fun.
Anita Roddick
#84. The aging process is fascinating because it doesn't disturb me, because this is what it is supposed to be like. But I'll tell you what does - it's the lack of strength - you can't hold up suitcases and do it yourself. Loss of physical strength.
Anita Roddick
#85. If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.
Anita Roddick
#86. When your back is against the wall financially, creative juices flow.
Anita Roddick
#87. Entrepreneurs are outsiders by nature - outsiders with a work ethic.
Anita Roddick
#88. You can't change t he wor ld f rom t he rear view mir ror.
Anita Roddick
#89. I played basketball in high school, and I love watching sports - I'll watch everything except maybe hockey.
Andy Roddick
#90. There are only two ways of making money: the hard way and the very hard way!
Anita Roddick
#91. 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
#92. If I had to choose my driving force, it would be passion.
Anita Roddick
#93. It's not so much that I don't like traveling, it's just that I love being home. I love being able to spend time with my friends.
Andy Roddick
#95. The market controls everything, but the market has no heart.
Anita Roddick
#96. I always said if I had to pick one Grand Slam to win, it would be the U.S. Open.
Andy Roddick
#97. Retiring isn't even a word I'd understand. Taking what makes you feel alive, and everyone's looking for ways of making them feel alive, in whatever they do - relationships, business or work - and not just being a voice for a money making business.
Anita Roddick
#98. If you don't believe one person can make a difference, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.
Anita Roddick
#99. We are essentially outsiders and that is the best definition of an entrepreneur I have ever come across.
Anita Roddick
#100. I don't want to be defined by being the founder of the Body Shop, and I don't want to be defined as a woman suffering from Hepatitis C. There's more to my life than that.
Anita Roddick
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