In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go.
From Andy Roddick
My entire career, I've been a worker.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I played basketball in high school, and I love watching sports - I'll watch everything except maybe hockey.
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.
I want everyone to look back and think that I was awesome.
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.
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