A biography for Andrew Strausshasn’t been written yet.
“I wouldn't rule out the idea of four-day Test cricket, if we can get the playing conditions right and the right circumstances it might be a good thing in some parts of the world.”
“Until you go through a bereavement, you don't know how you will cope. What we have found out is that life is completely different. The foundations that you have been building all your life are knocked down.”
“Captaincy is a confidence game. When the team is winning and your decisions go well that breeds confidence.”
“I still have ambition to captain England into the 2011 World Cup. I'm very keen to do that job.”
“I have to watch my language. I think a lot about the words I use in both the public environment and the dressing room. The language you use is a direct insight into how you are feeling.”
“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 it.”
“I had to stop being a student idiot and become more sensible and organised and that definitely improved my batting. I also reacted far more quickly to situations in Test cricket because I'd been a county captain. It made a huge difference.”
“I don't want to overplay the diary's significance, but it's a really helpful batting aid. It's not an obsession because I don't spend more than 10 or 20 minutes writing a day - and not necessarily every day. I might write in it three days in a row and then not the next four. It depends on the situation.”
“Grief is a bit of a journey, and it is evolving all the time but I am very functional.”
“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.”
“It's always frustrated me when I've seen other players able to smack balls over the bowler's head and stuff like that. I can't, though. When I've tried I've let myself down.”
“I still remember my quote from the 2007 World Cup, when I said scoring two threes was as good as hitting a six. That was me trying to justify what you couldn't. To me, and this was before I became director of cricket, we just couldn't do that again.”
“I should and can play better. That is going to be the challenge for me.”
“If we broaden the audience for cricket, more people will be interested in all forms, then TV rights and sponsors and crowds will follow.”