Sachin Tendulkar Quotes

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

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

I am excited about Indian Grand Prix F1 race. I will support the Force India team. I have friends like Michael Schumacher but I will support Force India because that is the Indian team and country comes first.

Hansie Cronje. Honestly. I got out to Hansie more than anyone.I never knew what to do with him

I'm confident and I trust my instincts.

It really doesn't matter honestly to look at the scoreboard where it's 20 runs and 2 wickets down or 200 runs, 2 wickets down, because ... if you're positive inside it really doesn't matter. It just requires different planning sometimes.

It is my job to make runs for the country and win. That is the job I have to do.

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.

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.

I am not thinking too far ahead, just want to take it one thing at a time.

Dhoni Is The Best Captain I Have Played Under

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

Shoaib Akhtar has been playing for 5, 6 years and is an experienced bowler.

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.

Some people call it fearless, some people call it confidence. And I feel I'm confident of whatever I do.

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 couldn't have asked for anything more than this. Winning the World Cup is the proudest moment of my life. Thanks to my team-mates. Without them, nothing would have happened. I couldn't control my tears of joy.

It's mental discipline that sets one apart, the ability to think differently and to generate energy in the right direction.

Let us celebrate the spirit of sport through the National Games

I grew up looking at my father as to how to behave. In watching him I grasped so many things. His own temperament was of a calm person. He was very composed and I never saw anger in him. To me, that was fascinating.

I am not going to come back and play IPL. Have a few plans and may play a few matches here and there.

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

Along with the talent, you also need direction.

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.

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

To me, pre-match preparation is extremely important because that's something which is within my control.

I played under many Captains, but Dhoni is the one, who fulfilled my Dream of winning World Cup

Chase your dreams and don't find shortcuts ... !!!

I want to give my six hours of serious cricket on the ground and then take whatever the result.

Obviously if you're positive, then there's positive energy flowing in your body. The moments are smoother - thought process is smoother. But if there is doubt, then also your body's not going to move that well, your thought process is not clear.

Winning the World Cup is the proudest moment of my life ... I couldn't control my tears of joy.

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

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.

And that is the reason why this victory is great, because different players have made contributions to the win.

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

But eventually it is a game of cricket.

I don't open the newspapers (to see what's written about me). I don't read them and you can see them hanging at the stand outside my hotel room. I focus on my game only. Last 21 years have been really special for me and I throughly enjoyed my joyful journey

I have to learn from Sehwag how to play in the nervous 90's

I have never thought where I will go, or forced any targets on myself.

Any team sport, there are certain team targets and those targets should always be in the forefront.

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.

In any profession, there are always ups and downs.

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

I believe in controlling the control elements. Something where we don't have control on certain things, those things you obviously cannot waste your energy in trying to figure out 'How can I control this?' You would much rather focus all your energy on the things that you can control.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Lara's done very well recently and I never had any doubts about the abilities of Lara or Waugh.

I'm so disappointed at what's being written and said about Anil Kumble ... He's been around for over 18 years and his achievements do all the talking.

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

It's about not accepting every challenge thrown at you. Sometimes you hold back and when it's needed you go for it.

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

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.

Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit of a history regarding Pakistan.

It's important not to take anything for granted.

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

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.

I feel it's the conscious mind that messes things up. The conscious mind is constantly telling you, this might happen or that might happen, even before it has happened. Your conscious mind tells you the next ball might be a out-swinger, but when it's coming at you you realize it's an in-swinger ... so literally, you've played two balls.

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