Quotes: on Tendulkar

"Nothing bad can happen to us if we're on a plane in India with Sachin Tendulkar on it."
- Hashim Amla, the South African batsman, reassures himself as he boards a flight


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"Sometimes you get so engrossed in watching batsmen like Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar that you lose focus on your job."
- Yaseer Hameed


"The more I see of him the more confused I'm getting to which is his best knock."
- M. L. Jaisimha



I am fortunate that I've to bowl at him only in the nets!
- Anil Kumble

Shah Rukh Khan in an interview:
Question: Who do you think as most important celebrity?
Shah Rukh: There was a big party where stars from bollywood and cricket were invited. Suddenly, there was a big noise, all wanted to see approaching Amitabh Bachhan.
Then Sachin entered the hall and Amitabh was leading the queue to get a grab of the GENIUS!!




"The joy he brings to the millions of his countrymen, the grace with which he handles all the adulation and the expectations and his innate humility -all make for a one-in-a-billion individual"
- Glenn McGrath


Andrew Symonds wrote on an Aussie tee shirt he autographed:
"To Sachin, the man we all want to be"


Andy Flower:
There are 2 kinds of batsmen in the world. One, Sachin Tendulkar. Two, all the others.

Sachin Tendulkar has often reminded me of a veteran army colonel who has many medals on his chest to show how he has conquered bowlers all over the world
-- Allan Donald

I remember reading in one of Allan Donald's interview. This interview was in Cricket Talk and 7-8 yrs ago.

I was bowling to Sachin and he hit me for two fours in a row. One from point and the other in between point and gully. That was the last two balls of the over and the over after that we (SA) took a wicket and during the group meeting I told Jonty (Rhodes) to be alert and I know a way to pin Sachin. And I delivered the first ball of my next over and it was a fuller length delivery outside off stump. And I shouted catch. To my astonishment the ball was hit to the cover boundary. Such was the brilliance of Sachin. His reflex time is the best I have ever seen. It’s like 1/20th of a sec. To get his wicket better not prepare. At least you won’t regret if he hits you for boundaries.




Peter Roebuck - Aussie journalist
On a train from Shimla to Delhi, there was a halt in one of the stations. The train stopped by for few minutes as usual. Sachin was nearing century, batting on 98. The passengers, railway officials, everyone on the train waited for Sachin to complete the century. This Genius can stop time in India!!




NKP Salve, former Union Minister, when Sachin was accused of ball tempering -
"Sachin cannot cheat. He is to cricket what (Mahatma) Gandhiji was to politics. It's clear discrimination."



BBC on Sachin
Beneath the helmet, under that unruly curly hair, inside the cranium, there is something we don't know, something beyond scientific measure. Something that allows him to soar, to roam a territory of sport that, forget us, even those who are gifted enough to play alongside him cannot even fathom. When he goes out to bat, people switch on their TV sets and switch off their lives"

Wasim Akram to Abdul Razzaq when the latter dropped Sachin's catch.
"Tuzhe pata hai tune kiska catch chhoda hai?" [Do you know whose catch you have dropped?]


Navjot Singh Siddhu

“India me aap Prime Minister ko ek baar katghare me khada kar sakte hain...Par Sachin Tendulkar par ungli nahi utha sakte”. [In India, you can even get the Prime Minister to stand in the witness box for once, but you can’t point a finger at Sachin]



He can play that leg glance with a walking stick also.
- Waqar Younis.





One of the finest compliments must be that bookmakers would not fix the odds - or a game - until Tendulkar was out.




Sachin is a genius. I'm a mere mortal.
- Brian Charles Lara




Mark Taylor, during the test match in Chennai (1997)
"We did not lose to a team called India...we lost to a man called Sachin"






Wife Anjali Tendulkar:
"I can be hundred per cent sure that Sachin will not play for a minute longer when he is not enjoying himself. He is still so eager to go out there and play. He will play as long as he feels he can play,"







Mathew Hayden, I feel has paid Sachin the best compliment:
"I HAVE SEEN GOD, HE BATS AT NO.4 FOR INDIA"



My Personal Best:
"Even my father's name is Sachin Tendulkar."
- Tendulkar's daughter, Sara, tells her class her father's name after the teacher informs them of a restaurant of the same name in Mumbai




A banner once said-

' I WILL SEE GOD WHEN I DIE BUT TILL THEN I WILL SEE SACHIN '