Words matter. These are the best Sachin Tendulkar Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I just keep it simple. Watch the ball and play it on merit.
When there is time to think about cricket, I think but when there is time to be with family, I try to do justice to that aspect of my life as well.
I’m really focusing now on how I can get to the next level as a batsman. How can I get even more competitive? How can I get even more consistent? How can I get better?
I am not thinking too far ahead, just want to take it one thing at a time.
From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
I have never believed in comparisons, whether they are about different eras, players or coaches.
There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families’ and the country’s economic development. A girl’s lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children.
I believe every era has its significance and the same holds true for players and coaches.
Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.
Critics haven’t taught me my cricket, and they don’t know what my body and mind are up to.
Isn’t cricket supposed to be a team sport? I feel people should decide first whether cricket is a team game or an individual sport.
Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit of a history regarding Pakistan.
I have played for 15 years and it has been a dream.
Obviously after such a long gap, one itches to get back to the game and score big runs.
It doesn’t always happen according to the way you have planned things out but I feel if you have covered most of the aspects, it does help out there in the middle.
I never played with a runner in my entire life, even in schools, because only I know where the ball is going and how hard, when I hit the ball, something my runner will never know about.
At least with me, the match starts much, much earlier than the actual match.
New Zealand’s Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.
Before coming here I had a minor back problem and I thought whenever I play Pakistan I get a back problem.
Wasim and Waqar were amazing bowlers. I would put them right up there with the best in the world.
I just want to continue the way I am going.
Shoaib Akhtar has been playing for 5, 6 years and is an experienced bowler.
At the start of my career, when I used to toss and turn at night, I was fighting that feeling and wanting to go to sleep. Now I know that’s normal, so I’ll just get up and watch TV or something. I know it’s just my subconscious mind getting ready for a game.
I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself.
I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.
I have never thought where I will go, or forced any targets on myself.
Before you lay a foundation on the cricket field, there should be a solid foundation in your heart and you start building on that. After that as you start playing more and more matches, you learn how to score runs and how to take wickets.
Schools across India do not have teachers, libraries, playing grounds and even toilets. I do not want to see empty classrooms, empty libraries. I do not want to see cattle grazing on fields meant to be cricket or football grounds.
My point of view is that when I am playing cricket I cannot think that this game is less or more important.
I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it’s a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there.
