Sachin Tendulkar

I feel it's the conscious mind that messes things up. The conscious mind is constantly telling you, this might happen or that might happen, even before it has happened. Your conscious mind tells you the next ball might be a out-swinger, but when it's coming at you you realize it's an in-swinger... so literally, you've played two balls.

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.

Before you lay a foundation on the cricket field, there should be a solid foundation in your heart and you start building on that. After that as you start playing more and more matches, you learn how to score runs and how to take wickets.

I have never thought where I will go, or forced any targets on myself.

When there is time to think about cricket, I think but when there is time to be with family, I try to do justice to that aspect of my life as well.

Before coming here I had a minor back problem and I thought whenever I play Pakistan I get a back problem.

Obviously after such a long gap, one itches to get back to the game and score big runs.

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.

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.

It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.

I have never believed in comparisons, whether they are about different eras, players or coaches.

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