Quotes By Sachin Tendulkar

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.

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

I just want to continue the way I am going.

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 played for 15 years and it has been a dream.

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

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.