Andrew Strauss Quotes

I don't need a captain's band to lead a team to victory.

My job is to give my team a chance to win.

Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine.

You have to have great players and great coaches working with you.

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.

I enjoy difficult tasks. What's hard is finding the people to do them and finding a team to actually enjoy success. That is the real challenge of success.

I think all you can worry is that you make the team the very best they can be.

Whether you're a founder, a leader, or an individual contributor, building a strong team is critical to your success.

There's always room for quality players in a team. The trick as a manager is to figure out how to bring the best out of your team.

Many times, my role was to work as a link between the coaches and the players; it was to be a leader. That was something natural for me.

You don't create a big and strong team easily.

You can be the best manager in the world, but if the players don't trust you, it will never work.

I have been in many teams that have had loads of talent but did not make it through and been with teams that did not have that much talent and ended up being champions.

I'm going to demand. I'm going to push and prod. And a lot of times, players don't know what is needed for a team to break through.

Any football club that is any good is down to the manager more than anything else.

I try to implement my own ways of making teams successful.

I think communication is massive in football and in all sports in general.

I have to put my team in a good situation.

When you get everybody going in the right direction you can do some great things, and that's in any business.

It's about what the players are doing. My job is facilitate that. My job is to put them in positions to succeed. My job is to listen to their ideas, take them if they're good, quietly push them to the side if they're not. My job is to help them grow.

I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

Believe me, you need good people if you want to make good players.

With good coaching, proper motivation and the right club structure with organic growth, you can achieve an awful lot in football.

Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.

I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.