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.

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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.
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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.
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Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.
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I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself.
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My point of view is that when I am playing cricket I cannot think that this game is less or more important.
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Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit if a history regarding Pakistan.
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Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.
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I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.
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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.
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If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong.
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I am not thinking too far ahead, just want to take it one thing at a time.
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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.
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And that is the reason why this victory is great, because different players have made contributions to the win.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I always had a dream to play for India but I never let it put pressure on me.
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