Great individuals and great performances build a team, which produces brilliant performances.
I just keep it simple. Watch the ball and play it on merit.
I have to learn from Sehwag how to play in the nervous 90's
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.
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.
Obviously if you're positive, then there's positive energy flowing in your body. The moments are smoother - thought process is smoother. But if there is doubt, then also your body's not going to move that well, your thought process is not clear.
Dhoni Is The Best Captain I Have Played Under
I want to give my six hours of serious cricket on the ground and then take whatever the result.
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.
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.
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.
My life, between 22 yards for 24 years... It's hard to imagine that this is coming to an end.
There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families' and the country's economic development. A girl's lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children.
If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets.
Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.
Even my father's name is Sachin Tendulkar.
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