Sachin Tendulkar Quotes
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I couldn't have asked for anything more than this. Winning the World Cup is the proudest moment of my life. Thanks to my team-mates. Without them, nothing would have happened. I couldn't control my tears of joy.
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I just want to continue the way I am going.
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I want to give my six hours of serious cricket on the ground and then take whatever the result.
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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.
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There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families' and the country's economic development. A girl's lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children.
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I used to crack A joke when Sourav Ganguly is upset and make him happy , i usually speak in bengali which would make him laugh
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It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.
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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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I always had a dream to play for India but I never let it put pressure on me.
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There are a few players who don't like to think about the game.
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I just keep it simple. Watch the ball and play it on merit.
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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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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 have played for 15 years and it has been a dream.
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If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets.
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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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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.
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At least with me, the match starts much, much earlier than the actual match.
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I have never thought where I will go, or forced any targets on myself.
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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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Obviously after such a long gap, one itches to get back to the game and score big runs.
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When there is time to think about cricket, I think but when there is time to be with family, I try to do justice to that aspect of my life as well.
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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.