Andrew Strauss Quotes

One of the things I like to do is let the players play and the coaches coach.

There are small things that every coach brings when they go to a new team. Like, you need to press this way or the other way.

The head coach is the chemist.

Where Joe was more vocal and emotional whereas Chuck was very reserved. But, both of them executed great strategy and both of them demanded a lot of their players.

You can have great players, but if they don't want to be coached, what are you going to do?

In the dressing room, we know that Arsene Wenger is the boss.

When you're the head coach, you coach 53 people, and their wives and their girlfriends and their families and all those people.

Head coach is the leader. He's the guy that sets the tone for the whole organization as far as the structure of the football side of things.

If head coaches weren't important to the success of a team, then owners wouldn't fire them all the time.

Ask any player. You're only as good as your coach allows you to be.

I want to feel the team is playing like I want. If not, why am I here?

I think it's very important to have contact with the players that I will coach.

I always get saddled as a player's coach, and I'm happy about that.

Benitez is a coach with high expectations of his players, he demands a lot and I like that. He knows how to communicate with his players and he is intelligent.

People usually think that it is the coach who has to raise the spirits of his players; that it is the coach who has to convince his footballers; that it is his job to take the lead all the time. But that's not always the case.

My objective is to coach the national team.

It's always really challenging trying to go from player to player/coach. You have a kind of friendship basis of relationship with all of your teammates, and now you go to this power position where you have to make decisions that might hurt people's feelings.

You don't have to be popular with the players to be a good manager or coach.

Assistant coaches become a little bit more buddies to the players than a head coach.

You have got to boss scrums. The players need to know what you want them to adhere to. Then it is up to them to decide whether they are adhering to that or not.

My job as a coach is to make good decisions. It's not to go out there and block or tackle.

A coach coaches. That's what he does. That's what he's good at. He's not managing people. He manages his players, but that's different.

From our perspective, the most important thing is what you do with the players, how you handle them, your ability to communicate with them.

I think you have to be more flexible to be a pro coach because once you pay the guy the money, whether he can backpedal the way you want him to or whatever, his style of play may not suit you, but you still are going to play him, and he is going to be a part of your team.

I talk to the players, either individually or as a group, what I'm feeling, and I think the players appreciate that. And I think they respond to that.