“The key to handling pressure situations like these is to keep yourself steady, follow your instincts and think clearly.” – Sachin Tendulkar
“If Destiny throws a stone at you, don’t let it become a millstone. Make it into a milestone.” – Sachin Tendulkar
“Chase your dreams …. but make sure you don’t find shortcuts ….” – Sachin Tendulkar
“A champion team needs only a small window of opportunity to stage a fightback, something I had learnt over the years.” – Sachin Tendulkar
“I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.” – Sachin Tendulkar
“Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.” – Sachin Tendulkar
“Don’t stop chasing your dreams, because dreams do come true.” – Sachin Tendulkar
“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.” – Sachin Tendulkar
“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.” – Sachin Tendulkar
“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.” – Sachin Tendulkar
“Critics haven’t taught me my cricket, and they don’t know what my body and mind are up to.” – Sachin Tendulkar
“I have played for 15 years and it has been a dream” – Sachin Tendulkar
“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.” – Sachin Tendulkar
“I have never believed in comparisons, whether they are about different eras, players or coaches.” – Sachin Tendulkar
“I’m really focusing now on how I can get to the next level as a batsman. How can I get even more competitive? How can I get even more consistent? How can I get better?” – Sachin Tendulkar
“I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics by giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.” – Sachin Tendulkar
“I have never thought where I will go, or forced any targets on myself.” – Sachin Tendulkar
“I feel it’s the conscious mind that messes things up. The conscious mind is constantly telling you, this might happen or that might happen, even before it has happened. Your conscious mind tells you the next ball might be an out-swinger, but when it’s coming at you you realize it’s an in-swinger… so literally, you’ve played two balls.” – Sachin Tendulkar
“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.” – Sachin Tendulkar
“I always had a dream to play for India but I never let it put pressure on me.” – Sachin Tendulkar
“I want to give my six hours of serious cricket on the ground and then take whatever the result.” – Sachin Tendulkar
“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.” – Sachin Tendulkar
“As a kid, I loved John McEnroe. They called me Mac because, while everyone else liked Borg, I was crazy about McEnroe. I tried wearing headbands and sweatbands and whooping at people. It didn’t quite work.” – Sachin Tendulkar
“Everyone at home was very supportive, but my father always said that all he wanted me to do was give it my best effort without worrying about the results.” – Sachin Tendulkar
“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.” – Sachin Tendulkar
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