Sachin Tendulkar Quotes

People throw stones at you and you convert them into milestones.

Don't stop chasing your dreams, because dreams do come true.

As far as the World Cup is concerned, it is a process. We don't want to jump to the 50th floor straight away. We must start on the ground floor.

people throw stones at you and u turned them into milestones

If you remain humble, people will give you love and respect even after you have finished with the game. As a parent, I would be happier hearing people say, “Sachin is a good human being” than “Sachin is a great cricketer” any day.

The key to handling pressure situations like these is to keep yourself steady, follow your instincts and think clearly.

Chase your dreams .... but make sure you don't find shortcuts ....

If Destiny throws a stone at you, don't let it become a millstone. Make it into a milestone.

In cricket- be fit, be alert and be Sachin.

Century was an occasional thing in cricket, Sachin made it frequent.

Son, life is like a book. It has numerous chapters. It also has many a lesson in it. It is made up of a wide variety of experiences and resembles a pendulum where success and failure, joy and sorrow are merely extremes of the central reality. The lessons to be learnt from success and failure are equally important. More often than not, failure and sorrow are bigger teachers than success and happiness.

Enjoy the game, chase your dreams because dreams do come true:

Sachin has infinite capacity for taking pains and still making runs.

WH Auden: “The first criterion of success in any human activity, the necessary preliminary, whether to scientific discovery or artistic vision, is intensity of attention or, less pompously, love.

Presence’ is actually very important in international sport. It is one thing just being there in the middle, but it is another making people aware of your ‘presence’. It is about body language and radiating confidence, something that the West Indian batting legend Viv Richards would personify.

people who have made India awesome aren’t all politicians. Most of the people that did this are not from the government. Whether it is entrepreneurs like J.R.D. Tata and N.R. Narayana Murthy, sportspersons like Sachin Tendulkar or musicians like A.R. Rahman, people from all walks of life have helped improve our nation. Not just celebrities, but E. Sreedharan, responsible for the Delhi Metro, and Dr Verghese Kurien, who created the Amul revolution, were all ordinary people doing their work extraordinarily well. Mahatma Gandhi and Swami Vivekananda, two of the most influential figures in India’s history, never held political office. Aim to be one of those people who made India awesome.

Everyone at home was very supportive, but my father always said that all he wanted me to do was give it my best effort without worrying about the results.

If you remain humble, people will give you love and respect even after you have finished with the game.

A champion team needs only a small window of opportunity to stage a fightback, something I had learnt over the years.

Two examples of true love are love between mother and child and love between Sachin and cricket.

Sachin is a genius in the world of cricket leaving behind all those who are only talented and intelligent.

Sachin plays not only to be remembered but also to be repeated.

When trying to save a match, the important thing is to set small targets. These can be as little as batting the next five overs, or the next hour, or even a session. If a wicket doesn’t fall for close to a session, the opposition, however much they are in control, are bound to feel pressure. Time was gradually running out for England and restlessness was creeping in.

I was part of a band of eleven fortunate men who had been given the duty of representing close to a billion Indians. It was an honour every aspiring cricketer lives for, to play for his country against the best of world cricket. And with the honour came responsibility. I was going to be accountable to the cricket fans back home and was expected to give my best for them.

Yet cricket was never the problem. In some ways, challenging as it often was, it was the simplest part of my life. Bowling to Viv Richards, Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Lara or batting against Shane Warne, Malcolm Marshall or Muttiah Muralitharan was child’s play compared to handling the expectations of my nation, the turmoil of my team and the machinations of my administration.

What was seminoma, I asked Dr Ashish at one point. A rarest of rare kind of germ cell tumour, he explained, a manageable tumour. I asked him to explain further and this was his reply: Look, he said, your tumour may not be Sachin Tendulkar, but Virat Kohli it is. He can also be dangerous and after all you do need to get him out. I still laugh at this analogy. Later one day I remembered to tell Cheeku about this and he couldn’t believe how much respect the doctor had given him.

I had a lot of adventures as a child, but one that stands out is when I was cut under my eye while playing at Shivaji Park, the breeding ground of cricketers in Mumbai, and had to return home covered in blood. I was captaining my team in a match at Shivaji Park when I was twelve and after our wicketkeeper got injured I asked my team-mates if anyone could keep wicket. No one volunteered and somewhat reluctantly I stepped up to the challenge, even though I’d never tried it before. I was uncomfortable standing in the unfamiliar position behind the stumps and soon missed a nick. The ball came at me fast and, even before I could react, it hit me smack in the face, just missing my eye.

16 November 2013, my cricketing journey finally came to an end at the Wankhede Stadium. After somehow managing to complete my farewell speech, I was having a conversation with my family, trying to soak in every moment, when my team-mate Virat Kohli walked up to me. He said, ‘Paaji aapne kaha tha aap ko yaad dilane ke liye ki aapko pitch pe jana hain.’ (You asked me to remind you that you had to go to the pitch one final time.) To be honest, I hadn’t forgotten; I was just trying to put the moment off for a little longer. It was to be my final visit to

and refused to go outside and play till I had a new one to show off. It seems a little ridiculous now, but the truth is I didn’t go out to play for a whole week! I just stood on the balcony and tried to guilt-trip my parents into buying me a bicycle. It was on one of these days that I gave them a real scare. Ours was a fourth-floor apartment that had a small balcony with a grille. As a small child, I couldn’t see over the top and, with curiosity often getting the better of me, I would try to get my head through the grille. On this occasion it resulted in disaster. While I succeeded in pushing my head through, I couldn’t pull it back out and was stuck there for more than thirty minutes! After plenty

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will always remember the game for other reasons, because I learnt a very important personal lesson. It taught me never to resort to unethical ways and to play the sport with honesty and integrity at all times.

The balance between aggression and caution was crucial

half days

We didn’t have too many balls then and if they bounced over the walls of the terrace, I would quickly run down four floors and fetch them (there were no elevators then, something that explains the secret behind my strong legs!).

With one of the best batsmen of all time and a very good friend, Brian Lara.

I’ve always believed that cricket is played best when your mind is at the opposite end and that problems occur when your mind is stuck at your own end.

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It seems to me that no autobiography can claim to document every detail of the author’s life. That’s impossible. There are

seems remarkable that I played in both, but I didn’t think much of it at the time. These tournaments are acknowledged

There were two problems as far as Australia was concerned. The first was Sachin Tendulkar and the second was Sachin Tendulkar in Chennai. Although

Bharat Khel Ratna award from the then President of India, KR Narayanan. This is India’s most prestigious award for sports

Sachin and teammate Kambli made a historical partnership of 664 in a Harris Shield game.

To me he will not just be remembered as a great player and a lovely human being, but as somebody who tried to learn Bengali for the last 14 years but never managed to do so!" -Sourav Ganguly, former Indian captain (on Sachin Tendulkar)

In an unprecedented move, 65,000 people were forced to vacate the stadium and the match was completed without a single spectator inside the ground. Perhaps it could all have been avoided if Shoaib had not stood in my way or if Wasim had withdrawn the appeal. India lost the Test match by 46 runs and the way the match ended left us all feeling rather bitter.

The Abdul Qadir over

good cricket. We lost the match by 38

his father was

What mattered to me most when I was batting was feeling comfortable. As long as I felt comfortable, it didn't matter where I was playing or who I was playing against. If you make technical adjustments to cope with different conditions, there's a risk of making yourself feel uncomfortable and of thinking too much about your technique. I've always felt that I've batted best when my mind has been at the bowler's end of pitch, not at my end. There's no time to think about both ends at the same time. So in general it always seemed to me that If I was comfortable with my gear, it would allow my mind to be at the opposite end and I had a better chance of playing well.

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उनकी बात में दम हो सकता है। यह सचमुच एक भव्य विदाई

गेंद

To us, the story of Tendulkar is unlike any other cricketing story. Gavaskar through his time and Kapil Dev who followed him were iconic cricketers but nothing has remotely matched the frenzy of modern cricket in India coinciding with the era of Tendulkar. How does he remain so calm? How does he handle this unimaginable pressure? How supreme must his love for the game be that he finds a nation’s expectations not weighing him down? He still has time to greet the young boy who comes to him for an autograph. He is polite to the hordes of journalists wanting a sound bite. He manages to present himself with such poise in the face of mercurial and whimsical assessment of his batting. People talk of Dhoni’s calmness under all circumstances, but spare a thought for Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar whose genius is under the microscope of a billion people.

The years between 2004 and 2008 were troubled years, as Tendulkar battled injuries and form, coinciding also with the ill-fated years of Greg Chappell’s tenure as the coach of the Indian team. All the arm-chair critics said he must go. Somehow, somewhere, Tendulkar found the composure and sagacity to ignore all this and concentrated on getting healthier, fitter and back to his best. He rediscovered himself and everyone knows how incandescent this second coming of Tendulkar was, for he blazed away in Bradmanesque fashion culminating in the 2011 World Cup victory. Back to his attacking best, he scored quickly, attacked the bowling and it was clear that he was enjoying his cricket more than ever before. We did not ask Dravid—actually we forgot to ask him—but Arun Lal or Gavaskar or Ravi Shastri are quite sure that Sachin was batting as well if not better than he had ever batted in his life.

Two cricketers who were excellent at this were the Australian captain, Steve Waugh, and the champion Indian leg spinner, Anil Kumble. Neither of them was possessed of the kind of glittering talent that a Brian Lara or a Shane Warne had, but Waugh and Kumble constantly raised the bar on their performance themselves. Waugh in fact called his book Out of My Comfort Zone and Kumble memorably said, ‘All his life Sachin Tendulkar had to live up to people’s expectations, I had to change them!’ Both set themselves very high personal performance goals and had no time for mediocrity, whether in their own cricket or anyone else’s. They proved that a combination of work ethic and challenging goals could lead you to achieve anything.

As you spend more and more time in the team, your role changes. It cannot be what it was 15 years ago or seven years ago.

Give your six hours to your work and then take whatever the result.

Behind an able Indian Cricket Team there is always able Sachin Tendulkar.

Cricket must be proud, "I played by Sachin Tendulkar".

I would like to be an umpire when Sachin is batting, so to get the best possible view of his shots.

Football said,"Why I am not a cricket ball to get a shot from Sachin".

Batting is like another language for Sachin, he always answers his critics by this language.

Sachin's straight drive is like fired bullet from most efficient gun.

Sachin's pedal sweep confirmed that physical conditions and age cannot stop you from hitting boundaries.

Sachin is passionate for cricket and fame is passionate for Sachin.

Thanks to technology, the future generation will be able to see Sachin's recorded innings and will accept that our generation was most lucky.

The surgical process turned out to be slightly out of the ordinary because I was not the best patient. I was extremely worried that the doctors would cut open my palm. Cutting the palm would mean substantially altering my grip, which I really didn’t want to do. I explained to both my surgeons the nuances of cricket and urged them to cut open the back of the hand. I was so obsessed with this issue that I woke up during the surgery and asked them to show me where they had made the incision. Dr Joshi later told me that they were all surprised to see me awake despite the anaesthesia. The doctors showed me that my palm had been left untouched and told me to calm down and allow them to carry on. Satisfied, I instantly drifted back to sleep.

60Sachin Tendulkar is a god in India and people believe that luck shines in his hand.

Shahid Afridi uses Sachin Tendulkar bat to hit the one of the fastest ODI’s century. Shahid Afridi, the Pakistani player was flown in to play against the West Indies in 1996 and didn't