Andy Roddick
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That's the thing with sports, man.
Anybody who comes in here and says their generation walked uphill both ways is completely self-indulgent and full of shit.
Yeah.
Were you superstitious about the serve?
No, I just knew it backwards.
I knew the cadence when it started.
I knew this little three count that I had.
I knew the feelings of it.
I knew more than they did.
I don't say that lightly because we'll get to the coaches.
And I was obviously always in pursuit of something new, something different, something additive.
And also don't talk about my surf.
Is that true?
That's true.
I was playing my friend, Marty Fish, who ended up being a really good player.
He was six in the world.
Basically all the kids who didn't get picked by the federation, right?
So the people that were not funded by us tennis anymore, kind of the throwaways.
We played at Crystal Palms apartment complex in Florida and there were like six of us and
And out of that group, a couple of us made top five, top six in the world.