Australia Quote by Andrew Strauss

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

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

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

Cricket is 90-95 per cent mental. To score runs, you've got to feel good about yourself.

— Andrew Strauss

“I may be surprised. But I don't think I will be.”

— Andrew Strauss

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

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

But there are definitely times when I just need to write to clarify my thoughts and put any doubts to bed.

— Andrew Strauss

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

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

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

That's what sport can do to you: it gives you a lot of heartache and pain, and sometimes the ultimate rewards.

— Andrew Strauss