Andrew Strauss Quotes

I've done it the correct way with the coaching badges. I have done watching the games, I have done listening to managers, I have done travelling around Europe watching other managers train, I have done a bit of TV work to help with analysis.

Providence had a graduate assistant job opening. They asked me if I wanted to apply, and I applied. That break right there put me in position to learn from great coaches. It really jump-started every other good break I ever had in coaching.

I always stressed that I didn't have coaching experience, but that I did have a deadline: June 9.

I'm just like any person who is coaching in this league, I'm just looking for an opportunity, that's all.

At the end of it, I'll maybe do a coaching badge but I'm not going to get forced into things.

I always thought I could do a good job coaching, but the opportunities have not presented themselves.

Well, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros.

I wanted to get my coaching badges after retiring, and I asked to take the exam, but they told me I needed to study for four years. I told them they were crazy. Who is going to study for four years? How is someone going to teach me technical things when I know more than they do?

To me, personally, my development to become a head coach will be much better working for Coach Saban than necessarily going somewhere else because you learn every day that you're in there.

I was a coach at Spurs for 15 years. I did want to go into management but what was important to me was doing a very good job in whatever capacity I was employed.

It's been fun to get out and work with a lot of coaches. I've broadened my knowledge.

When you are coaching an international team, you are running a programme for 12 months of the year. You get to influence peoples' careers.

The 18 years on TNT has prepared me for a lot of opportunities, and coaching is one of them.

I think that in each stage of your career, you need certain things to improve your game and to develop your style of play.

I've been around the coaching circuit far too much.

I've always said I didn't want to coach. But I can't coach in college because I don't have my degree. So I want to give myself opportunities. A degree is something everyone should have.

I want to do some coaching, maybe a couple of days a week, and start building up slowly - find out my philosophy, how I like to play and things like that. I want to be a coach now and eventually I want to be a manager.

I wanted a new experience, to learn another language. I wanted to be different. I wanted people to realise I'm taking my coaching career very seriously. I wanted to create my own pathway.

I did almost take a job in China because I thought it might be good for me to go abroad and experience what I think the best coaches in the Premier League have had. It helps you learn. You have to evolve.

If I wanted to do anything in the coaching world, I would probably need to upskill myself.

Today in coaching, it's a two-way street. They can fire you whenever they want. Bottom line: It's all about what you can do to better yourself professionally. This is a better move.

Sometimes you have to do a role that might not be the most interesting, but it will set you up for doing roles that you want to do.

One of the by-products of being allowed to start my professional career prematurely is that the evolution of my work is really evident.

It's like any other job: there's a method to it and it's really important to get that down. I'm still working on it, I got a lot to learn. It's one thing to make records but it's a whole 'nother capacity to be a star - whatever that is.

I was early in my career and didn't understand that people were looking at me and critiquing me yet.