Andy Roddick
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
It was my birthday.
I retired that afternoon.
I made a run at the US Open.
I was in the middle of the US Open.
I'd played the night match the night before.
And then I just did it.
So I played like another week.
And that was that.
And I never came back.
Right.
It might have been a little more selfish than that.
I'm pretty good at...
I think the athletes were trained to like live in denial.
We have numbers, like a very clear data set of your one, your two, your four, your six, your eight.
I was able to do that math.
And then I was 12 or 15 or whatever it was.
So it was going the wrong way.
And then frankly, it was these monsters that came, these Novaks and Rafas and Rogers.
And my shoulder was not great.
If I didn't have the carrot that I was chasing, that was a grand slam title.