Full Name : Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar ORE sme Maharashira, India ims India, Mumbai Indians 1 be going © bed having nightmares of Sachin just running yn the Wicket and belting me back ad for six. He was unstoppable. I don’ think anyone, apart from Don Bradman, isin the“Commit all your crimes when Sachin is bating. They will go unnoticed because even the Lord is busy watching him batting! 3-Adam Hollioke “In an over I can bow! six different balls. But then Sachin looks at me with a sort af gentle arrogance down the pitch as if to say ‘Can you bow! me another one” 4-Steve Waugh “There is no shame being beaten by such a great player. We didn’t lose to Team India, We Lost to Sachin Tendulkar” After loosing the Coca Cola Cup to India 5-Dennis Litlee “1FT’ve to bow to Sachin, 1’ bow! with my helmet on. He hts the ball so hard. 6-Micheal Kasprowicz “You have to decide for yourself whether you're bowling well or not. He’s going to hit you for fours and sixes anyway?” THBrett Lee ‘You might pitch a ballon the off stump and think you have bowled a good ball and he walks across and hits it fortwo behind midwicket. His bat looks so heavy but he just waves it around like it's toothpick? * 8-Brain Lara “Everybody gots 15 minutes of fame, But if tere’s one person I've admired over a 5-year of period, it's definitely Sachin.” 9-Paul Strang “What we (Zimbabwe) need is 10 Tendulkars.”10-Wasim Akram “sachin should appologize for the way he has played” After Sachin’s 98 in WC2003 11-Sir Donald Bradman “L saw him playing on television and was struck by his technique, so I asked my wie to come look at him, Now I never saw myself play, but I feel that this player is playing much the same as | used to play, and she looked at him on Television and id yes, there i a similarity between the two...his compactness, technique, stroke production... ital seemed to gel!” 12-BBC on Sachin Beneath the helmet, under that unruly curly bar, inside the cranium, there is something we don’t know, something beyond scientific messure, 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 ives * 13-Methew HAYDON “Ihave seen God. He bats at number 4 for India” 4-Viv Richards He is 99.5 per cent perfect. I'd pay to see him, 15 Brian Lara The only batsman i would love to see by paying forthe tickets an siting in te stand just to wateh him is none ther than Sachin Tendulkar 16-Wasim Akram Today, he showed the world why he is considered the best batsman around, Some ofthe shots he played were simply amazing. Earlier, opposing teams used to fel that Sachin’s dismissal meant they could win the game. Today, I fel thatthe Indian players, too, fee this way. after game at Hobart, CUB series, 1999 17lan Chappell‘Whenever I see Sachin play I am reminded of the Graeme Pollock quote of Cricket being a ‘se the ball, hit the ball ame.’ He hits the ball as it’s thee to be hit. 18-Nayjot Sidhu: “His mind is like a computer, He stores data on bowlers and knows where they are going to piteh the ball” 19-Mark Taylor “We did not lose to a team called India ..we lost toa man called Sachin” during the test match in Chennai (1997) 20-Rabul Dravid Playing in the same team as Sachin i @ huge honour. His balance of mind, shrewd judgement, ‘modesty and, above all, his echnical brilliance make him my alltime hero... You can’t get a more complete cricketer than Sachin, He has everything that a cricketer needs to have 21-Imran Khan He was, is and will em 8 jewel in India’s batting crown forthe next foreseeable future 22-Andy Flower There are 2 kind of batsmen in the world. One Sachin Tendulkar. Two all the others. 23-Amitabh Bachhan “Sachin (Tendulkar) is the heartbeat of our nation. The country breathes every time he goes out to play and when he is out, the country stops breathing.” 24-Harsha Bhogle ‘There's no better sight on the cricket field then watch Tendulkar bat istralian Media “Then passion, technique and power, nerves and placement and judgement that applies to all tastes.” st exciting batsman of his time because he finds the right balance between reason a 26-TIME Magzine “Tendulkar waits for the bowler’s delivery like a martial arts black belt ready to parry an opponent —moving quickly into position, flashing his bat to guide the ball where he will.27-Wasim Akram “Cricketers like Sachin come once ina lifetime and I am privileged he played in my time.” (On a train from Shimla to Deli, there was a hat 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!! 29- Bermuda's Captai Our greatest bowler is levercock but iftendulkar gives him a catch he will surely drop it to watch at 30-Mark Taylor Look into his eves when he comes dow to bat - He looks like atiget on prowl, hunger for runs, I WILL SEE GOD WHEN | DIE BUT TILL THEN I WILL SEE SACHIN 32-Brian i “please dont compare me wid sachinthe is GOD!i am a mere mortal!” 33-Hlarsha Bhogle afer australia posed 359 onthe board in the world cup 2003. each member in the team was so tensed...sachin came up to them... he was like ™ jus hit one 4 ina over..that means 50 fours inan innings=200 runs... listen boys. jus have 10 ‘make 159 runs in 240 balls in tha cae... lets go there. an hit the target” 34-Murli Karthik Only god ean bar beter than him35.8 Gavaskar | would back him to become the fist man to Score a hundred international hundreds ~ that’s $0 in Tests and 50 in one-dayers, Bowlers ofthe world beware,” 36-Annonymous “When we think of cricket, Sachin comes fo our mind even before the bat and ball” a7 chard Boock (Journalist) “How do you explain cticket to Americans?” — Answer is, obviously, “one offrive from the Lite Master Tendulkar...” 38-Dhoni “Performance is one thing, performing back to back is something else, People may call him [Tendulkar] a sitting elephant, but he's the best, He never said a word, and wanted to let his bat do the talking 39-Kumble 1am really Lucky that have to bow! him only at net 40-Harsha “Itwas a predictable, if slightly delayed, ascent, Sachin Tendulkar stands atop cricket's Everest but he isn looking down at the cricketing World. That would be unlike him for he looks upon this game asa vehicle of fulfilment, a a servant rather than a master” on breaking Lara's record 4t-Amran Khan “Pakistanis ean be as optimistic to hope that Sachin gets hundred and they win the match,” 42-80 (on Sachin's 50 test centuries) Gavaskar “Well, it's such a record that you can only compare it with Bob Beamon’s long-jump world record set in the 1968 Olympics in Mexico, At that time it seemed tha it would never be broken. Tendulkar’s $0 Test centuries is one such records which doesn’t look like being surpassed” 43-Sachin’s wife Anjali Tendulkar “He (Sachin) stil gts tense before every match after so many years, he won't eat properly, and wets up early in the moming on the day of the match. [think he performs best