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 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! in reference to Sachin Tendulkar.
- Sir Don Bradman
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
He is Sachin Tendulkar. I hope he stays Sachin Tendulkar. We need a new player, a player in his own way. He has a technique which is the hallmark of a great player. Everything indicates that he will be a great player and I am sure he will prove me right. Reminds me of Barry Richards.
- Eddie Barlow
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
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
If I’ve to bowl to Sachin, I’ll bowl with my helmet on. He hits the ball so hard.
- Dennis Lillee
The pressure on me is nothing as compared to Sachin Tendulkar. Sachin, like God, must never fail. The crowd always expects him to succeed and it is too much pressure on him
- Mark Waugh
You might pitch a ball on the off stump and think you have bowled a good ball and he walks across and hits it for two behind midwicket. His bat looks so heavy but he just waves it around like it’s a toothpick.
- Brett Lee, on Sachin Tendulkar’s batting, 1999
“Sachin is cricket’s God”
- Barry Richards.
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“He is 99.5 per cent perfect. I’d pay to see him”
- Viv Richards.
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“I have seen God. He bats at number 4 for India”
- Mathew Hayden
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“There is no shame being beaten by such a great player, Sachin is perhaps only next to the Don”
- Steve Waugh.
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“I still think Tendulkar is the best batsmen in the world ahead of Steve Waugh and Lara”
- Glenn McGrath.
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“You take Don Bradman away and he is next up I reckon”
- Steve Waugh.
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“Cricketers like Sachin come once in a lifetime, and I am privileged he played in my time”
- Wasim Akram
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“Sachin Tendulkar is a genius. I’m a mere mortal”
- Brian Lara
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“Don’t bowl him bad balls, he hits the good ones for fours”
- Michael Kasprowicz.
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“It’s scary, where the hell do we bowl to him”
- Allan Border.
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“Yeah mate, but that’s with all great players”
- Ian Chappell.
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“He’s better than Ben Hur”
- Paul Wilson.
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“There’s no doubt about it. He is the best”
- Tony Grieg.
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“Technically, you can’t fault Sachin. Seam or spin, fast or slow – nothing is a problem”
- Geoffrey Boycott.
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“Destined to be a great”
- Barry Richards.
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“You have to watch India in India truly to appreciate the pressure that Sachin Tendulkar is under every time he bats. Outside grounds, people wait until he goes in before paying to enter. They seem to want a wicket to fall even though it is their own side that will suffer”
- Shane Warne
Best One
Commit all your crimes when Sachin is batting. They will go unnoticed because even the Lord Is watching.
-Placard at the SCG as Sachin was making his century,2008 January
