Famous Quotes about Sachin:

"Tujhe pata hai tune kiska catch chhoda hai?"
- Wasim Akram to Abdul Razzaq when the latter dropped Sachin’s catch. Sachin was on 32 when this happened, he went on to score 98 and won the match for india

"I have seen God, he bats at no. 4 for India"
- Mathew Hayden

"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!!"
- Peter Roebuck

“If I've to bowl to Sachin, I'll bowl with my helmet on. He hits the ball so hard.”
- Dennis Lillee

I still think Tendulkar is the best batsmen in the world ahead of Steve Waugh and Lara.
- Glenn McGrath

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

I saw him (Sachin) playing on television and was struck by his technique, so I asked my wife to come look at him. Now I never saw myself play, but I feel that this player is playing much the same as I used to play, and she looked at him on Television and said yes, there is a similarity between the two...hi compactness, technique, stroke production... it all seemed to gel.
- Sir Don Bradman

"There are 2 kind of batsmen in the world. One Sachin Tendulkar. Two all the others."
- Andy Flower

"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


India's fortune will depend on how many runs the little champion scores. There is no doubt Tendulkar is the real thing.
- Sunil Gavaskar

He has defined cricket in his fabulous, impeccable manner. He is to batting what Shane Warne is to bowling.
- Richie Benaud


Technically, you can't fault Sachin. Seam or spin, fast or slow nothing is a problem.
- Geoffrey Boycott


He is a perfectly balanced batsman and knows perfectly well when to attack and when to play defensive cricket. He has developed the ability to treat bowlers all over the world with contempt and can destroy any attack with utmost ease.
- Greg Chappell


I'll be going to bed having nightmares of Sachin just running down the wicket and belting me back over the head for six. He was unstoppable. I don't think anyone, apart from Don Bradman, is in the same class as Sachin Tendulkar. He is just an amazing player.
- Shane Warne, after the coca cola cup finals in Sharjah.


I think he is marvellous. I think he will fit in whatever category of Cricket that has been played or will be played, from the first ball that has ever been bowled to the last ball that's going to be. He can play in any era and at any level. I would say he's 99.5% perfect.
- Viv Richards on Sachin Tendulkar


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 television sets and switch off their lives
- BBC Sports, on Sachin Tendulkar

"India me aap Prime Minister ko ek Baar Katghare me khada kar sakte hain..Par Sachin
Tendulkar par Ungli nahi utha Sakte.."
- Navjot Singh Sidhu

Sachin is cricket's God!
- Barry Richards

Harder he works, the luckier he gets.
- Ian Chappell


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

"To Sachin, the man we all want to be"
What Symonds wrote on an aussie t-shirt he autographed specially for Sachin.
- Andrew Symonds

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

Don't bowl him bad balls, he hits the good ones for fours:
- Michael Kasprowicz

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.

Commit all your crimes when Sachin is batting, they will go unnoticed because even the Lord is watching cricket.
-A banner in Australia