Sachin Tendulkar

Few quotes on the great man SACHIN--

• "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 Team India. 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 my time" - 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 pressure on him" -Mark Waugh.

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

• "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.

• "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... 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 sort of gentle arrogance down the pitch as if to say 'Can you bowl me another one?'"