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Any active sportsman has to be very focused; you've got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various directions, you do not achieve the results. I need to know when to switch on and switch off: and the rest of the things happen around that. Cricket is in the foreground, the rest is in the background. ↗

— Sachin Tendulkar

#active #any #around #background #cricket

At the start of my career, when I used to toss and turn at night, I was fighting that feeling and wanting to go to sleep. Now I know that's normal, so I'll just get up and watch TV or something. I know it's just my subconscious mind getting ready for a game. ↗

— Sachin Tendulkar

#conscious mind #feeling #fighting #game #get

Isn't cricket supposed to be a team sport? I feel people should decide first whether cricket is a team game or an individual sport. ↗

— Sachin Tendulkar

#decide #feel #first #game #i

Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache. ↗

— Tertullian

#achieve #headache #nothing #scripture

I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself. ↗

— Sachin Tendulkar

#creates #cricket #feel #himself #i

Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to. ↗

— Sachin Tendulkar

#cricket #critics #haven #know #me

Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field. ↗

— Sachin Tendulkar

#field #himself #his #individual #off

If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong. ↗

— Sachin Tendulkar

#cricket #go #india #man #person

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

— Sachin Tendulkar

#compare #else #i #myself #never

It doesn't always happen according to the way you have planned things out but I feel if you have covered most of the aspects, it does help out there in the middle. ↗

— Sachin Tendulkar

#always #aspects #covered #does #feel