"On a train from Shimla to Delhi, there was a halt at one of the stations. The train stopped by for few minutes as usual. Sachin was nearing a century, batting on 98. The passengers, railway officials, everyone on the train waited for Sachin to complete the century. This genius can stop time in India!"

"There is no shame losing to such a great player."

"The more I see him, the more I want to see him."

"The more I see of him the more confused I'm getting to which is his best knock."

"Don't bowl him bad balls, he hits the good ones for fours."

"Test cricket is bloody hard work, especially when you've got Sachin batting with what looks like a three-metre-wide bat."

"His mind is like a computer. He stores data on bowlers and knows where they are going to pitch the ball."

"When we were growing up, we all used to watch Sachin. He was like God to us, he had that aura around him."

"We did not lose to a team called India, we lost to a man called Sachin."

"He continues to give more than 100 per cent and his schoolboy-like enthusiasm for the game is something I envy and admire. For the team he is the best available coaching manual."

"There is no doubt he is the greatest batsman. In the last 13–14 years, he has worked so hard and has proved to the world he is outstanding and when he is playing so well, you can only wait to get his wicket."

"He is just a legend of the game. To score 20 or even 30 Test hundreds would represent a magnificent career, but to go on and score 50 is remarkable. He has set the benchmark for other batsmen to follow, but the truth is it is hard to see how anyone can truly follow him because he is moving the bar so high. It is not simply about ability where Sachin is concerned, it is about longevity, fitness, and hard work. And to cap it all he is such a gentleman. I watch him bat and sometimes I wonder how he makes it look so easy. He has an unbelievable gift and he has made the most of it and long may he continue. I’m lucky to have been able to get to know him."

"Irrespective of the score, whenever Sachin Tendulkar comes to bat he is under pressure. The pressure comes from all those people who look up to him, who pray that he gets a century, who cheer like India has already won when he comes in to bat, and who silently troop out of the stands once he gets out. When a visiting team comes to India, they know whom the Indians look up to. While they love watching India play, there is no doubt that Tendulkar is the player they love watching most. There is a buzz when he comes in to bat and if he fails, the crowd goes quiet for the rest of the game."

"I know that the new ball is due, but I am saving it for that "Chotu" (Sachin) who is coming next."

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

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

"I am one of those fortune people who have seen Bradman and Tendulkar bat in my lifetime and in my opinion Tendulkar is the best batsman I have seen in my life."

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

"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!"

"In the early years, especially around the mid 90s, I had this feeling you could play around on his ego and get him out. He believed he could attack bowlers at any time and anyone who could bowl maidens to him stood a good chance. Things are of course different now."

"It did dawn on me at the end of the series that he was something special."

"I actually feel very embarrassed because I rejected him as a fast bowler. I think I did him and the game of cricket a favour."

"If I’ve to bowl to Sachin, I’ll bowl with my helmet on. He hits the ball so hard."

"“The last time I watched Sachin was last week when he was on his way to a spectacular 175 and once again I felt that I was watching a player who comes but once in a century. It can be said that he is the Bradman of our times and I do feel privileged to have played a lot of cricket against him,”"

"This little prick's going to get more runs than you, AB."

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

"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 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."

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

"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."

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

"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 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."

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

"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."

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

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

"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 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."

"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."