What 10 mere mortals say about 'the god' Sachin Tendulkar

"Nothing bad can happen to us if we're on a plane in India with Sachin Tendulkar on it." - Hashim Amla, the South African batsman, reassures himself as he boards a flight.

"Sachin cannot cheat. He is to cricket what (Mahatma) Gandhiji was to politics. It's clear discrimination." - NKP Salve, former Union Minister when Sachin was accused of ball tempering

"There are 2 kind of batsmen in the world. One Sachin Tendulkar. Two all the others." - Andy Flower

"Sometimes you get so engrossed in watching batsmen like Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar that you lose focus on your job." - Yaseer Hameed in Pakistani newspaper.
 
"To Sachin, the man we all want to be" - Andrew Symonds wrote on an Aussie t-shirt he autographed specially for Sachin.
 
“Beneath the helmet, under that unruly curly hair, inside the cranium, there is something we don't know, something beyond scientific measure. Something that allows him to soar, to roam a territory of sport that, forget us, even those who are gifted enough to play alongside him cannot even fathom. When he goes out to bat, people switch on their TV sets and switch off their lives."  - BBC on Sachin
 
"Sachin is a genius. I'm a mere mortal." - Brian Charles Lara

"We did not lose to a team called India ...we lost to a man called Sachin." - Mark Taylor, during the test match in Chennai (1997)
 
"The more I see of him the more confused I'm getting to which is his best knock." - M. L. Jaisimha