Memorable quotes on Sachin Tendulkar

Michael Atherton:

The archives recall not one single incriminating incident, not one drunken escapade, not one reported affair, not one spat with a team-mate or reporter … As Matthew Parris wondered of Barack Obama in these pages recently, is he human?

Adam Hollioake :

In an over I can bowl six different balls. But then Sachin looks at me with a sort of gentle arrogance down the pitch as if to say,’Can you bowl me another one?’

Hansie Cronje:

I had to remind Gary Kristen often that he was in the covers to field against Sachin not to applaud him

Lata Mangeshkar:

Sachin treats me like his mother and I always pray for her like a mother. I can never forget the day when he called me ‘aai’ (mother) for the first time. I had never imagined that. It was pleasant surprise for me and I feel blessed to have a son like him

Ravi Shastri:

He is someone sent from up there to play cricket and go back

Hashim Amla:

Nothing bad can happen to us if we’re on a plane in India with Sachin Tendulkar on it

A fan at the SCG:

Commit all your crimes when Sachin is batting. They will go unnoticed because even the Lord is watching

Andy Flower:

“There are 2 kind of batsmen in the world. One Sachin Tendulkar. Two all the others”

Shane Warne:

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

Virat Kohli after India won the 2011 World Cup:

“Sachin Tendulkar has carried the burden of the nation for 21 years. It is time we carried him on our shoulders”

Matthew Hayden:

“I have seen God, he bats at no. 4 for India”

Sir Donald Bradman

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!

Mark Taylor, during the test match in Chennai (1997):

“We did not lose to a team called India. We lost to a man called Sachin”