"I have no doubt in my mind that he was the greatest batsman of the modern era and I don`t see another like him coming soon. It was a privilege to play against him."

"Certainly the best I’ve seen... People talk of (Sir Don) Bradman, but our generation and the ones immediately before us didn’t get to see him... Sure, he has an astounding average (99.94), but of the cricketers I’ve watched, Sachin’s the best."

"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."

"I didn’t see Don but to me, in all my years associated with the game, I haven’t seen a better batsman than Sachin Tendulkar."

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

"In cricket, my superhero is Sachin Tendulkar. He has always been my hero and will continue to remain so."

"I am fortunate that I've to bowl at him only in the nets."

"Putting Sachin Tendulkar's latest feat in a strictly cricketing context would not be fair to the sportsman. His achievements in the world of cricket need to be seen on a par with efforts in any other field - science, art, literature, etc - to push the frontiers of human excellence."

"Sachin Tendulkar, the Little Master, is so talented that wherever you’re from, you can’t help but admire him as he hits another century."

"He has been in form longer than some of our guys have been alive."

"He is a tremendous cricketer. He is young and has got a lot of ability. He's got his own style. He has got the temperament for big cricket and I hope that he goes from strength to strength."

"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."

"Tendulkar is to cricket what Michael Jordan is to basketball and Muhammad Ali to boxing."

"The only batsman I would love to see by paying for the tickets and sitting in the stand just to watch him is none other than Sachin Tendulkar."

"You know genius when you see it, and let me tell you, Sachin is pure genius."

"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."

"I have to say Sachin (is better than Lara), because he has that aura when he comes out to bat."

"The thing I admire most about this man is his poise. The way he moves, elegantly without ever looking out of place in any condition or company, suggests his pedigree."

"I don’t know cricket, I don’t know how Sachin plays. But I still try to watch him playing because I want to know why my country’s economy goes down 0.5% when he’s batting."

"You get him out and half the battle is won."

"I can imagine cricket without Sachin. But, can never imagine Sachin without cricket"

"I can be hundred per cent sure that Sachin will not play for a minute longer when he is not enjoying himself. He is still so eager to go out there and play. He will play as long as he feels he can play."

"I am very privileged to have played with him and seen most of the runs that he has scored. I am also extremely happy to have shared the same dressing room... He is a very reserved person and generally keeps to himself. He is very determined, committed and doesn't show too many emotions. He just goes about doing his job."

"There are two kinds of batsmen in the world. One, Sachin Tendulkar. Two, all the others."

"To Sachin, the man we all want to be."

"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."

"Sachin Tendulkar means more to India than I do."

"I have delayed my shoots many times to watch Sachin bat."

"Sachin Tendulkar has often reminded me of a veteran army colonel who has many medals on his chest to show how he has conquered bowlers all over the world."

"In my several years of international cricket, Tendulkar remains the best batsman I have ever bowled to. It's been a pleasure to bowl at the master batsman even though one hasn't always emerged with credit from the engagements."

"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?'"

"In any profession,there are always ups and downs."

"I fail sometimes, I succeed sometimes, so that's fair enough. It's a package deal. It comes with that package:Failures and success."

"Whatever level you reach, getting better, never stops."

"Don't stop chasing your dreams, because dreams comes true."

"When there is time to think about i think,but when there is time to be with family , i try to do justice to that aspect of my life as well."

"I have never thought where i will go, or forced any targets on myself."

"It's about not accepting every little challange thrown at you. Sometimes you hold back and when it's needed you go for it."

"I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else."

"I am planning on an autobiography. People should know something about me"

"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."

"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."

"When people throw stones at you, you turn them into milestones."

"The only thing that was on my mind was, 'I want to play for India one day,' and I was pretty sure and confident that one day I will."

"The demolition of the Babri Masjid was the last straw. Naseem (1995) was almost like an epitaph. After the film, I had really nothing to say. I needed to regain my faith and retain my sanity. So I decided to travel around India and document it on a video camera"

"I begin with two memories of my childhood. Don't ask me why, because I do not know. Perhaps because it helps to get things started."

"I’ve always maintained that it’s easy to make a film on Adolf Hitler. What is difficult is to find out why he struck a chord with the German people; what is the nature of fear, aspiration and identity that he evoked in them that it became Hitler’s Germany."

"On being honored at the Casablanca Film Festival in 2005:"

"Vinod Mirani, box office editor:"