Quotes By Sachin Tendulkar

The Australian tour was good for us; it was ideal preparation for us.

I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself.

At least with me, the match starts much, much earlier than the actual match.

If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets.

As a kid I loved John McEnroe. They called me Mac because, while everyone else liked Borg, I was crazy about McEnroe. I tried wearing headbands and sweatbands, and whooping at people. It didn't quite work.

Any active sportsman has to be very focused; you've got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various directions, you do not achieve the results. I need to know when to switch on and switch off: and the rest of the things happen around that. Cricket is in the foreground, the rest is in the background.

I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage.

From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.

Wasim and Waqar were amazing bowlers. I would put them right up there with the best in the world.

If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong.

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.

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.

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 have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.

Obviously after such a long gap, one itches to get back to the game and score big runs.

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.

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.

I just want to continue the way I am going.

Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.

My point of view is that when I am playing cricket I cannot think that this game is less or more important.

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.

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.

I always had a dream to play for India but I never let it put pressure on me.

New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.

I have never believed in comparisons, whether they are about different eras, players or coaches.

I have played for 15 years and it has been a dream.

I believe every era has its significance and the same holds true for players and coaches.

Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.

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.

There are a few players who don't like to think about the game.