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Sachin Tendulkar Quotes

As a kid I loved John McEnroe. They called me Mac because, while everyone else liked Borg, I was crazy about McEnroe. I tried wearing headbands and sweatbands, and whooping at people. It didn't quite work.

Sachin Tendulkar

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: indian
Birth: April 24, 1973

Topics

Work People Me Crazy Loved Kid

My main source for faith-based stuff is mostly the Bible, and a childhood with a much, much higher-than-median exposure to theological thought.

Jim Butcher

Childhood Bible Thought Source Stuff

Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.

Andrew Marvell

Flowers Buds Gather Spare

I read a lot of W.E.B. Du Bois, who wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk.'

Andre Holland

Black Who Read Souls Folk Wrote

When pop culture can influence things in any way, when a song becomes something bigger than just a song, that's the greatest thing to me.

Max Martin

Culture Me Influence Song Way

When I was born, my parents and my mother's parents planted a dogwood tree in the side yard of the large white house in which we lived throughout my boyhood. This tree I learned quite early, was exactly my age - was, in a sense, me.

John Updike

Mother Age Tree Parents Me Early

I'm trying to encourage my children's generation and the other ones coming to return to basic American principles.

Stewart Udall

Children Generation American Trying

When you're writing for a sequel and there's a movie that's been deemed sacred ground by the fanbase that's the predecessor, you cannot do anything to tread on that, so it's a bit trickier than just being able to sit down and write something.

Troy Duffy

Writing You Down Write Anything Sit

People can put their best poems straight onto the web.

Roger McGough

Best People Web Straight Poems Put

I obsessively listened to all of James Lapine's shows as a child growing up in Cleveland and had every cast recording and every VHS tape of 'Into the Woods' and everything that James had done that I could get my hands on.

Rory O'Malley

Child Growing Up Woods Hands Growing

We need self-confidence in our ability to build Africa. I trust in Mali and I trust in music.

Rokia Traore

Music Trust Self-Confidence Build

I listen to music deeply and seriously for at least an hour or two a day.

Mira Nair

Music Day Seriously Listen Two Hour

I use my cell phone as much as I can - I talk to friends all the time. I'm like 2,000 hours a month. It's crazy.

Lisa Loeb

Time Cell Phone Crazy Friends Phone