Andrew Strauss Quotes

I don't want to subject myself just to one scheme. I think it's just if you can play, you can play no matter what scheme you play in.

When you play against different people from all walks of life you can't do the same thing against every player defensively or offensively. You have to change up the way you go at a player.

I am used to changing tactics to adapt to the climate.

What matters in the Sun-tzu universe are not positions of strength and power, but situations in which you have options, full of potential force.

It does not matter to me. I can play from the left, the right, or attack through the middle.

It's just that you got to play according to the situation and what the team demands. I know that I can play in both flows.

To say we have to play a certain way, or try to, every game is great in theory, but depending what players you have got you have to play to their strengths and cover up their weaknesses.

Unless you're at a club long enough that can develop a philosophy of playing and recruiting players that fit that way of playing, then you have got to be adaptable.

I work a little bit of slower, methodical pace. I'm able to implement certain different styles depending on who my opponent is.

Regarding my position, I feel really comfortable in any position up front.

At Rennes, I played more down the left wing, but also down the right and sometimes in midfield. At Dortmund, it was the same: I alternated wings. I don't have problems with the position I'll take up.

When you have a way of playing or a mentality of playing, it's difficult to do something else.

I have a plan of action, but the game is a game of adjustments.

I'm just trying to take what the defense gives me.

You know you can usually solve almost any problem, or you'll realize you can't, but usually you can solve almost any problem through some sort of trickery one way or another and get the shot to work, but you know when to give up.

Principle is OK up to a certain point, but principle doesn't do any good if you lose.

I have no style, because I change each time . . . each day I play differently. Today I play differently than yesterday.

I learned it doesn't matter how you win. You play to your team's strength.

One night I'm going to have a big night scoring; some nights I'm going to have a big night doing other things. Just doing whatever it takes to win the ballgame, not necessarily sitting up here worrying about scoring 30 points.

I like to leave a little room to innovate and change things around while I'm working.

I never had a set of rules. Every situation is different.

The military has no constant form, just as water has no constant shape - adapt as you face the enemy, without letting them know beforehand what you are going to do.

So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong and to strike at what is weak. Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing.

Keep everybody guessing as to what your next trick is going to be. Don't become too predictable.

There has never been a master plan. Anyone who wanted to do it, we fired because it takes on a life of its own and doesn't cover new reality. We want people taking into account new information.