I can't remember a loss after which I felt as bad as this, |
[Graff said] No, ... Good, because if you did you should use your mulligan on that call. |
[Since losing the Wimbledon final to Roger Federer,] I have only played four matches, ... and only in three of them did I feel like I was prepared. But I feel like the momentum is swinging in the right direction. |
[Still Roddick insisted that for him it wasn't the usual opening round:] I was a little more nervous than I would have been for a normal first round match, ... But I am having a blast. |
A lot of pressure is off ... by us doing well this week as well, ... I feel like I've been through a couple battles here. I'm excited. I'm going to go out there and just wing it and have fun. |
All it could take is losing one service game and you're in a fourth set. |
Anybody who has won three rounds obviously deserves to be there. He's obviously playing very confidently right now. Fourth round, you don't take anyone lightly, that's for sure. |
As good as Roger is, people want to see him tested. You want there to be the Boston Celtics for the Lakers, you want there to be Red Sox for the Yankees. |
At least they look stupid in front of 15,000 people now if they make the wrong call. That's more fun, right? |
At one point in your life, you'll have the thing you want or the reasons why you don't. |
At the start of the third, I was able to hit the ball harder and deeper. That was key for me. |
Bottom line is they were just better than us this weekend, |
Bottom line, he stepped up and took the points and I didn't. |
But I'm through and I'm going to keep battling. A lot of people are under the assumption that it's easy to play well every week and it's not. |
But that's not the reason I lost the match. He wanted it more than I did. He is hitting the ball better than I am right now. I didn't come here ready to play. I'll regroup and move on. |