Michael Kasprowicz
"Don't bowl him bad balls, he hits the good ones for fours."
Dennis Lillee
"If I've to bowl to Sachin, I'll bowl with my helmet on. He hits the ball so hard."
Shane Warne
"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."
Steve Waugh
(after being defeated in the Coca-Cola Cup finals in Sharjah) "It was one of the greatest innings I have ever seen. There is no shame being beaten by such a great player, Sachin is perhaps only next to the Don''.
Don Bradman
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...hi compactness, technique, stroke production... it all seemed to gel! in reference to Sachin Tendulkar.
Mathew Hayden
"I have seen God, he bats at no. 4 for India"
Mark Taylor
"We did not lose to a team called india...we lost to a man called Sachin."
Brain Lara
"Sachin is a genius , i am a mere mortal!"
Harsha Bhogle
"If Sachin plays well..india sleeps well"
Andy Flower
"There are 2 kind of batsmen in the world. One is Sachin Tendulkar. Two all the others."
Michael Kasprowicz
During the Bangalore Test, frustrated, he went to Dennis Lillee and asked, "Mate, do you see any weaknesses (in Tendulkar)?" Lillee replied, "No Michael, as long as you walk off with your pride that's all you can do".
Brett Lee
"You might pitch a ball on the off stump and think you have bowled a good ball and he walks across and hits it for two behind midwicket. His bat looks so heavy but he just waves it around like it's a toothpick? "
This one is not by any legend, but some fans
"Commit all your crimes when Sachin is batting. They will go unnoticed because even the Lord Is watching" - Placard at the SCG as Sachin was making his century, January 2008
Virendra Sehwag to Shoaib Akhtar after Sachin hit Shoaib for a six in 2003 World Cup match
"Baap baap hota hai aur beta beta hota hai"
But the finest compliment must be that bookmakers would not fix the odds - or a game - until Tendulkar was out.
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