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  • Cricketers like Sachin come once in a lifetime and I am privileged he played in my time

  • When you bowl at him you are not just trying to get him out, you are trying to impress him. "I want him to walk off thinking 'that Flintoff, he's all right isn't he?" I feel privileged to have played against him.

    Thinking   Trying   Want  
  • 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.

    "'I am not in a race with Anna Hazare'". Interview with Shantanu Guha Ray, indiatoday.intoday.in. October 7, 2011.
  • Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen.

    In Sunday Times 26 Feb. 1984
  • To me, cricket is a simple game. Keep it simple and just go out and play.

    Simple   Games   Play  
    "Old master is still spinning" by Kevin Mitchell, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2009.
  • I was playing cricket first and my cricket coach was the one that introduced me to track and field.

    Track   Fields   Firsts  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win.

    Sports   Winning   Squash  
  • My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity and it was about upholding the spirit of the game. I hope I have done some of that. I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. It is why I leave with sadness but also with pride.

    Team   Sadness   Pride  
    "Rahul Dravid Retires From Cricket 'With Sadness But Also With Pride'". www.theguardian.com. March 09, 2012.
  • It’s hard for me to imagine a life without playing cricket because it’s all I have ever done since I was 11 years old.

    Years   Done   Imagine  
    "Indian cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar announces retirement" By Paul Gittings, www.cnn.com. October 10, 2013.
  • The era of playing aggressive cricket and to have the mid-on up is gone. You now try to read the mindset of a batsman.

    Trying   Eras   Gone  
  • Ladies playing cricket? Absurd. Just like a man trying to knit

    Men   Trying   Absurd  
  • To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.

    Sports   Thinking   Cash  
    1823 Letter to R B Haydon, 24 Aug.
  • I think playing cricket taught me more about working in teams and leadership that has stayed with me throughout my career.

    Team   Thinking   Careers  
    "10 things to know: Satya Nadella" by Andrea Drusch, www.politico.com. February 4, 2014.
  • Today if I'm a cricketer it is because of Sachin Tendulkar. Else, I would never have picked up a bat. He's the reason behind me playing cricket

  • I'll tell you what pressure is. Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse. Playing cricket is not.

  • 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.

    Thinking   Play   Perfect  
    "45 quotes on Sachin Tendulkar in honour of the Master Blaster’s 44th birthday". yourstory.com. April 24, 2017.
  • During my 21 years of playing cricket, I have never been approached by anyone or offered a bribe.

    Sports   Years   Cricket  
  • Since my childhood, I saw my elder brothers playing cricket and that is what built my passion around it. I was enrolled in school but all my attention was on cricket.

    Source: www.vogueamour.com
  • I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.

  • If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.

    G. M. Trevelyan (1944). “English Social History”
  • Village cricket spread fast through the land. In those days before it became scientific, cricket was the best game in the world to watch, with its rapid sequence of amusing incidents, each ball a potential crisis!

    Summer   Children   Fun  
    "English Social History".
  • Playing in the same team as Sachin is a huge honour. His balance of mind, shrewd judgment, modesty and, above all, his technical brilliance make him my all-time hero. You can't get a more complete cricketer than Sachin. He has everything that a cricketer needs to have

    Team   Hero   Mind  
  • I saw him 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 felt that this player is playing with a style similar to mine, and she looked at him on Television and said yes, there is a similarity between the two...his compactness, technique, stroke production - it all seemed to gel!

    Player   Two   Wife  
  • Every cricketer knows that in the early stages of a batsman's innings i.e. before he gets his eye in - luck plays an important part.

    Eye   Play   Luck  
  • I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.

    "Cricket pitch to parliament: Sachin Tendulkar's political move" by Harmeet Shah Singh, www.cnn.com. May 02, 2012.
  • I love to watch movies and play cricket.

    Play   Watches   Cricket  
  • Cricket to us was more than play, it was a worship in the summer sun.

    Summer   Play   Sun  
    Edmund Blunden (1957). “Poems of many years”
  • 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.

    Play   Ease   World  
  • Today, he showed the world why he is considered the best batsman around. Some of the shots he played were simply amazing. Earlier, opposing teams used to feel that Sachin's dismissal meant they could win the game. Today, I feel that the Indian players, too, feel this way.

    Team   Winning   Player  
  • Village cricket spread fast through the land.

    Land   Village   Cricket  
    Quoted in Helen Exley Cricket Quotations (1992).
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