Playing It My Way Quotes

“If you remain humble, people will give you love and respect even after you have finished with the game. As a parent, I would be happier hearing people say, “Sachin is a good human being” than “Sachin is a great cricketer” any day.”
― Sachin Tendulkar, Playing It My Way: My Autobiography

“Son, life is like a book. It has numerous chapters. It also has many a lesson in it. It is made up of a wide variety of experiences and resembles a pendulum where success and failure, joy and sorrow are merely extremes of the central reality. The lessons to be learnt from success and failure are equally important. More often than not, failure and sorrow are bigger teachers than success and happiness.”
― Sachin Tendulkar, Playing It My Way: My Autobiography

“The key to handling pressure situations like these is to keep yourself steady, follow your instincts and think clearly.”
― Sachin Tendulkar, Playing It My Way: My Autobiography

“I had a lot of adventures as a child, but one that stands out is when I was cut under my eye while playing at Shivaji Park, the breeding ground of cricketers in Mumbai, and had to return home covered in blood. I was captaining my team in a match at Shivaji Park when I was twelve and after our wicketkeeper got injured I asked my team-mates if anyone could keep wicket. No one volunteered and somewhat reluctantly I stepped up to the challenge, even though I’d never tried it before. I was uncomfortable standing in the unfamiliar position behind the stumps and soon missed a nick. The ball came at me fast and, even before I could react, it hit me smack in the face, just missing my eye.”
― Sachin Tendulkar, Playing It My Way: My Autobiography

“When trying to save a match, the important thing is to set small targets. These can be as little as batting the next five overs, or the next hour, or even a session. If a wicket doesn’t fall for close to a session, the opposition, however much they are in control, are bound to feel pressure. Time was gradually running out for England and restlessness was creeping in.”
― Sachin Tendulkar, Playing It My Way: My Autobiography

“I was part of a band of eleven fortunate men who had been given the duty of representing close to a billion Indians. It was an honour every aspiring cricketer lives for, to play for his country against the best of world cricket. And with the honour came responsibility. I was going to be accountable to the cricket fans back home and was expected to give my best for them.”
― Sachin Tendulkar, Playing It My Way: My Autobiography

“Presence’ is actually very important in international sport. It is one thing just being there in the middle, but it is another making people aware of your ‘presence’. It is about body language and radiating confidence, something that the West Indian batting legend Viv Richards would personify.”
― Sachin Tendulkar, Playing It My Way: My Autobiography

“A champion team needs only a small window of opportunity to stage a fightback, something I had learnt over the years.”
― Sachin Tendulkar, Playing It My Way: My Autobiography

“16 November 2013, my cricketing journey finally came to an end at the Wankhede Stadium. After somehow managing to complete my farewell speech, I was having a conversation with my family, trying to soak in every moment, when my team-mate Virat Kohli walked up to me. He said, ‘Paaji aapne kaha tha aap ko yaad dilane ke liye ki aapko pitch pe jana hain.’ (You asked me to remind you that you had to go to the pitch one final time.) To be honest, I hadn’t forgotten; I was just trying to put the moment off for a little longer. It was to be my final visit to”
― Sachin Tendulkar, Playing It My Way: My Autobiography

“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, Playing It My Way: My Autobiography

“If you remain humble, people will give you love and respect even after you have finished with the game.”
― Sachin Tendulkar, Playing It My Way: My Autobiography

“Match abandoned without a ball bowled”
― Sachin Tendulkar, Playing It My Way: My Autobiography

“उनकी बात में दम हो सकता है। यह सचमुच एक भव्य विदाई”
― Sachin Tendulkar, Sachin Tendulkar: Meri Atmakatha

“Sehwag”
― Sachin Tendulkar, Sachin Tendulkar: Meri Atmakatha

“गेंद”
― Sachin Tendulkar, Sachin Tendulkar: Meri Atmakatha

“seems remarkable that I played in both, but I didn’t think much of it at the time. These tournaments are acknowledged”
― Sachin Tendulkar, Playing It My Way: My Autobiography

“It seems to me that no autobiography can claim to document every detail of the author’s life. That’s impossible. There are”
― Sachin Tendulkar, Playing It My Way: My Autobiography

“What mattered to me most when I was batting was feeling comfortable. As long as I felt comfortable, it didn't matter where I was playing or who I was playing against. If you make technical adjustments to cope with different conditions, there's a risk of making yourself feel uncomfortable and of thinking too much about your technique. I've always felt that I've batted best when my mind has been at the bowler's end of pitch, not at my end. There's no time to think about both ends at the same time. So in general it always seemed to me that If I was comfortable with my gear, it would allow my mind to be at the opposite end and I had a better chance of playing well.”
― Sachin Tendulkar, Playing It My Way: My Autobiography

“wonderful”
― Sachin Tendulkar, Playing It My Way: My Autobiography

“in.”
― Sachin Tendulkar, Playing It My Way: My Autobiography

“With one of the best batsmen of all time and a very good friend, Brian Lara.”
― Sachin Tendulkar, Playing It My Way: My Autobiography

“half days”
― Sachin Tendulkar, Playing It My Way: My Autobiography

“The balance between aggression and caution was crucial”
― Sachin Tendulkar, Playing It My Way: My Autobiography

“will always remember the game for other reasons, because I learnt a very important personal lesson. It taught me never to resort to unethical ways and to play the sport with honesty and integrity at all times.”
― Sachin Tendulkar, Playing It My Way: My Autobiography

“We didn’t have too many balls then and if they bounced over the walls of the terrace, I would quickly run down four floors and fetch them (there were no elevators then, something that explains the secret behind my strong legs!).”
― Sachin Tendulkar, Playing It My Way: My Autobiography

“I’ve always believed that cricket is played best when your mind is at the opposite end and that problems occur when your mind is stuck at your own end.”
― Sachin Tendulkar, Playing It My Way: My Autobiography

“turned”
― Sachin Tendulkar, Playing It My Way: My Autobiography

“good cricket. We lost the match by 38”
― Sachin Tendulkar, Playing It My Way: My Autobiography

“The surgical process turned out to be slightly out of the ordinary because I was not the best patient. I was extremely worried that the doctors would cut open my palm. Cutting the palm would mean substantially altering my grip, which I really didn’t want to do. I explained to both my surgeons the nuances of cricket and urged them to cut open the back of the hand. I was so obsessed with this issue that I woke up during the surgery and asked them to show me where they had made the incision. Dr Joshi later told me that they were all surprised to see me awake despite the anaesthesia. The doctors showed me that my palm had been left untouched and told me to calm down and allow them to carry on. Satisfied, I instantly drifted back to sleep.”
― Sachin Tendulkar, Playing It My Way: My Autobiography

“In an unprecedented move, 65,000 people were forced to vacate the stadium and the match was completed without a single spectator inside the ground. Perhaps it could all have been avoided if Shoaib had not stood in my way or if Wasim had withdrawn the appeal. India lost the Test match by 46 runs and the way the match ended left us all feeling rather bitter.”
― Sachin Tendulkar, Playing It My Way: My Autobiography