Here are some quotes by other cricketers, honoring Sachin as one of the greatest batsman.
Andrew Flintoff: When you howl at him you are not just trying to get him out, you are trying to impress him. "I want him to walk thinking 'that Flintoff, he's all right isn't he? I feel privileged to have played against him."
Kapil Dev: You can't contain Sachin's deeds in a statistical frame. He brings unstinted joy to the art of battling. Statistics will happen because cricket is about runs and wickets. But how can you evaluate Sachin's contributions by just counting runs he has scored. To me, he best symbolizes the heights an individual can rise to dominate a team sport. Words can never capture the beauty of Sachin's cricket.
Mark Waugh: When you play against Tendulkar, you always want to see him get a few runs just to see him bat.
Shane Warne: "Sachin Tendulkar, is in my time, the best player without doubt-daylight second, Brain Lara third"
Sir Donald Bradman: I saw him playing on the television and I was struck by his technique, so I asked my wife to 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, his compactness, technique, stroke production, it all seemed to gel in reference to Sachin Tendulkar.
Barry Richards: Consensus is that Sir Donald Bradman was the best batsman ever to play cricket. Sir Don did not play One-Day cricket but if he did, he could easily be Sachin Tendulkar.
"Sachin is cricket's God."
Sunil Gavaskar: India's fortune will depend on how many runs the little champion scores. There is no doubt Tendulkar is the real thing.
Paul Strang: What we (Zimbabwe) need is 10 Tendulkars.
Mathew Hayden: His life seems to be a stillness in a frantic world (when he goes out to bat), it is beyond chaos, it is a frantic appeal by a nation to one man. The people see him as God.
"I have seen god. He bats at number 4 for India."
Wasim Akram: Today he showed the world why he is considered the best batsman around. Some of the shots he played were simply amazing. Earlier opposing teams used to feel that Sachin's dismissal meant they could win the game. Today, I feel that the Indian players too, feel this way.
Ravi Shastri: He is someone send from up there to play cricket and go back.
Bain Lara: Sachin is a genius, I am a mere mortal.
Brett Lee on Sachin Tendulkar's batting in 1999: 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 mid-wicket. His bat looks so heavy but he just waves it around like it's a tooth pick.
Harsha Bhogle: If Sachin plays well.India sleeps well.
Ricky Ponting: "Sachin is the most complete batsman I have seen. His technique is so good and he played well in all conditions. To have 41-one day international tons shows what an appetite he has for scoring runs."
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