Some great quotations about Sir Sachin Tendulkar

"Destined to be a great" -Barry Richards.

"He is 99.5 percent perfect. I'd pay to see him" - Viv Richards.

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

"It's scary, where the hell do we bowl to him" -Allan Border.

"There is no shame being beaten by such a great player. We didn't lose to TeamIndia. We Lost to Sachin Tendulkar" -Steve Waugh.

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

"I'd like to see him go out and bat one day with a stump. I tell you he'd do okay"-Greg Chappell.

"Cricketers like Sachin come once in a lifetime and I am privileged he played in mytime" - Wasim Akram.

"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 pressureon him" -Mark Waugh.

"Everybody gets 15 minutes of fame. But if there's one person I've admired over a15-year of period, it's definitely Sachin." - Brain Lara

"I'll be going to bed having nightmares of Sachin just running down the wicket andbelting 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 anamazing player" -Shane Warne.

"I saw him playing on television and was struck by his technique, so I asked my wifeto come look at him. Now I never saw myself play, but I feel that this player isplaying much the same as I used to play, and she looked at him on Television andsaid yes, there is a similarity between the two... his compactness, technique,stroke production... it all seemed to gel" -Sir Donald Bradman.

"In an over I can bowl six different balls. But then Sachin looks at me with a sortof gentle arrogance down the pitch as if to say 'Can you bowl me another one?'" -Adam Hollioke

You might pitch a ball on the off stump and think you have bowled a good ball and hewalks across and hits it for two behind midwicket. His bat looks so heavy but hejust waves it arounad like it's a toothpick? -Brett Lee

You have to decide for yourself whether you're bowling well or not. He's going tohit you for fours and sixes anyway? -Micheal Kasprowicz

Technically, you can't fault Sachin. Seam or spin, fast or slow ? Nothing is aproblem? -Geoffrey Boycott.

His life seems to be stillness in a frantic world... [When he goes out to bat], itis beyond chaos - it is a frantic appeal by a nation to oneman. The people see him as a God... ? Mathew Hayden, on Sachin Tendulkar.

"The fact of the matter is that India still needs Sachin in a big way. All this talkof the youngsters taking over is very foolish. The reason whyTendulkar is so important for the team is because of his ability to inspire othersand make them perform under pressure" - Some day on "Times of India".

And, this is the best!!! (A True fan of Sachin carried this Banner in a match..)

"Commit all your crimes when Sachin is batting. They will go unnoticed because eventhe Lord is busy watching him batting"