Sachin Tendulkar Quotes

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.
Sachin Tendulkar

Love, Hate, Winning

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.
Sachin Tendulkar

Life, Hard, Hit

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.
Sachin Tendulkar

Mind, Happen, Cricket

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

Time, Long, Cricket

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

History, Special, Tough

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

Off, Himself, Individual

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

Time, Thinking, Far

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.
Sachin Tendulkar

Game, Cricket, Team

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

Mind, Cricket, Body

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

Important, Game, Cricket

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.
Sachin Tendulkar

Mind, Sleep, Feeling

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

Person, Blame, Cricket

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

Great, Win, Different

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.
Sachin Tendulkar

Help, Happen, Middle

I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.
Sachin Tendulkar

Else, Anyone, Tried

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.
Sachin Tendulkar

Family, Home, Mind

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.
Sachin Tendulkar

Football, Cricket, Playing

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

Different, Whether, Players

I just keep it simple. Watch the ball and play it on merit.
Sachin Tendulkar

Simple, Play, Keep

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

Give, Cricket, Serious

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.
Sachin Tendulkar

Work, Crazy, Else

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

Match, Actual, Starts

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.
Sachin Tendulkar

Heart, Cricket, Before

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

Play, Put, Dream

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.
Sachin Tendulkar

Anger, Father, Person

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Nationality: Indian

Born: April 24, 1973

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