I tie my wedding ring around my neck with an old shoelace. It's to remind me of why I play cricket: for my family - my wife Ruth and my boys Sam and Luca. — Andrew Strauss Copy Share Image
I think you grieve different elements, you grieve your wife who's gone, you grieve the fact she had cancer and you had to watch her die, you grieve the fact the life you built isn't going to be the same… — Andrew Strauss Copy Share Image
I've definitely grown into the job after that difficult first Test against Pakistan. I'd been captain for the Sri Lanka one-dayers, which hadn't gone… — Andrew Strauss Copy Share Image
I think there will be one overarching coach for Tests and one-day cricket. I think you need one person in control and in charge… — Andrew Strauss Copy Share Image
I have to accept that my role is to gather the runs slowly. Kevin Pietersen is flamboyant, but that style doesn't work for me. — Andrew Strauss Copy Share Image
Cricket is 90-95 per cent mental. To score runs, you've got to feel good about yourself. — Andrew Strauss Copy Share Image
In the cricket world, with a lot of little issues that people are getting in a tizz around, I'm just like: Don't worry about… — Andrew Strauss Copy Share Image
When I arrived at Middlesex I was the only guy who'd been to public school and I got plenty of stick. But it wasn't… — Andrew Strauss Copy Share Image
But there are definitely times when I just need to write to clarify my thoughts and put any doubts to bed. — Andrew Strauss Copy Share Image
No one has ever doubted Kevin Pietersen's abilities as a player, he has been a phenomenal player for England for a long period of… — Andrew Strauss Copy Share Image
The way you speak to a team is very important - both before a Test and during the game itself. If you try and… — Andrew Strauss Copy Share Image
T20 has become a longer and longer format of the game. It is more than four hours in a lot of parts of the… — Andrew Strauss Copy Share Image
That's what sport can do to you: it gives you a lot of heartache and pain, and sometimes the ultimate rewards. — Andrew Strauss Copy Share Image
