[Last Update: 04/20/2004]

When a few players were asked who they would want on a deserted island with them, Andy's response was "Cartman from South Park. The guy's so fat you know he'd find food."

"You'll see 18 guys walking before me, I'll be the one pointed out. I guess they think I'm trying to sneak into the locker room," -- Andy on why he wears his ID badge at tournaments

"Are you one of the ball boys?" a volunteer worker asked."They always ask me that at tournaments," Roddick says with a shrug and a smile. "I guess I look like I'm 12." -Ericsson Open 2001

"I love this sh--" -- As shouted to Captain McEnroe after Andy leveled the Davis Cup Match against Leander Paes

"My neck is getting sore here" -- After facing countless aces from Goran Ivanisevic at Wimbledon

"I have a way to go because, I still enjoy cartoons."- Andy, when questioned about his maturity level

"I just kept my head down and kept it between the lines"-Andy (2003 Wimbledon)

Q. What's the best thing about tennis to you?
ANDY RODDICK: The best thing about tennis to me?
Q. Yeah. What keeps you playing it?
ANDY RODDICK: The cheerleaders. Wait, there are none" - Andy on the REAL reason he plays tennis, Wimbledon 2002.

"At one point in your life you have the thing you want or the reasons why you don't." -- Andy on Life (his favorite quote)

"Is that the longest fifth set ever? It was? So, no, I've never played one longer than that!"

"Make them come bring it"- Andy's message for his ATP rivals

"I was tested 17 or 18 times last year...If there really were 47 positive drugs tests, then a third of the tour would have beenannounced. I think those are just numbers."- Andy Roddick on Greg Rusedski's claim that the ATP ignored other positive drug tests.

"The f*cking ball was right on the line... It was right on the line!" Roddick screamed at Dias. "How can you overrule the far side of the court? What is wrong with you? You can't overrule it at 4-5 in the fifth set. What are you? Are you an absolute moron?"- Andy yelling to umpire at a line call in 2001 US Open Quarter Finals in his match against Lleyton Hewitt, who won it (But Andy was right...the ball was in)

"I think that was an absolutely pathetic call," he said. "No umpire in their right mind will ever make that call. I'm not going to take anything back. I said it. I meant it at the time."- Andy, about shouting at the umpire about a line call (Quarter Finals, US Open 2001)

"We know our territory, where we can go to have a good time, what places we'll get mobbed at, and where we can go to relax. We're both homebodies, so we spend a lot of time at each other's place watching movies."
-- Andy Roddick on him and girlfriend Mandy Moore, as told to the Boca News.


"I'm definitely disappointed in myself for letting it do that to me," he said. "At the same time, I had pretty good darn reason for it."- Andy, about shouting at the umpire about a line call (Quarter Finals, US Open 2001)

"He'd pretend to read the paper and his head would fall forward," Andy Roddick said. "I'd come off the court and he'd say, 'Oh, yeah, good playing.' I'd be like, 'I lost 0 and 0, Dad.' He wasn't the most avid fan. He'll stay awake through the whole match now."

"When asked about how many tickets he was going to buy for his family for the match he was playing with against Sampras (2001) at the Ericsson - "I don't know. I try to focus on hitting the yellow little fuzzy thing around and let other people handle the tickets."

"I'm a little bit of a goofball," he concedes. "I was the class clown at high school. Smart comments and stuff. There was this one teacher that would make me write 500 word essays as punishment whenever I spoke out of turn or did something bad. So one Sunday I decided I'd write five or six of 'em and when she said: `Right, 500-word essay!' I just pulled one right out of my desk. She made me write 1,000 for that one."I was a . . ." he lowers his voice conspiratorially, "smart a- s- s."

"The people who are 24 or 25 have a lot more pressure than I do, They don't want to lose to an 18-year-old kid. I'm just going to keep firing."

"so say something funny!" When a photographer asked if they could have one picture with a smile. "Jan-Mike, will you show us your butt?" (Andy to Jan-Michael Gambill)

"In Memphis, I forgot my hats and the only thing I had in my bag was this orange visor. I played well with it and won the tournament so I've continued wearing it."
- Andy having to explain his latest fashion statement in Delray Beach.

"I got goose bumps when I was walking out there. It's just kind of majestic." Andy said about Centre Court

"The fact is that there are a hell of a lot of guys out there who give their heart and soul every time they go out on the court. They are clean and play by the rules. It would be cool if a lot more was focused on that."- Andy Roddick, who wants the media to accentuate the positive.

Roddick insists he didn't pattern his game after any one player -- "I developed my own style -- but says he does have two heroes. "I can see famous people at tournaments and not get star struck," he says, "but when I see Agassi and Sampras walking around, I just kind of sit still and my jaw drops."