Gavaskar Quotes

#1. When you knock on the door and the selectors do not open it, then knock harder,' has been his idol Sunil Gavaskar's recurring advice to all youngsters, and Rahul set out to do just that.

Devendra Prabhudesai

#2. When we used to play, we thought no one can break Sunil Gavaskar's record. No one could think about 50 Test centuries at that time. This is certainly a big knock under the circumstances, better than the 200s and 300s.

Kapil Dev

#3. When you compare the icons of the game, you have Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev, Sachin Tendulkar and Dhoni in the same bracket.

Ravi Shastri

#4. Why talk of the team when our Cricket Board is like an exclusive club with members being there for years on end? If they can stay on without performing, the players too feel they can stay in the team without too big a performance.

Sunil Gavaskar

#5. 12 of the best years of my life - It will never be forgotten.

Troy Aikman

#6. Respect Dhoni's decision to quit. We should respect his incredible contribution to Indian cricket. Can't measure in words. Probably his quitting came one Test early.

Sunil Gavaskar

#7. Do not wait for a poem; a poem is too fast for you. Do not wait for the poem; run with the poem and then write the poem.

Juan Felipe Herrera

#8. I may need to stop reading Benny's journals. That was a bit too gangster just now.

Kenya Wright

#9. Test centuries is one such records which doesn't look like being surpassed

Sunil Gavaskar

#10. Powerful people do not try to control other people. They know it doesn't work, and that it's not their job. Their job is to control themselves.

Danny Silk

#11. The only kind of writing is rewriting.

Ernest Hemingway,

#12. Remember, if you write anything nasty about me, I'll come around and blow up your toilet.

Courtney Love

#13. I am the servant of the Qur'an as long as I have life. I am the dust on the path of Muhammad, the Chosen One.

Rumi

#14. I would have made a lousy stripper. I'm just not very comfortable exposing myself.

Robin Wright

#15. To become a good player, you need talent. To become a great player, you need an attitude like Kohli.

Sunil Gavaskar

#16. Comparisons are really no good in sport, especially if it is a comparison between different eras and generations, for there are so many variables that come into play, starting from the quality of the opposition to playing conditions.

Sunil Gavaskar

#17. knowing how they want to be remembered helps them decide how to live today, and leaving a legacy will give them a purpose that will unleash their passion.

Jon Gordon

#18. Jayne, do NOT wiz on the werewolves.

Elle Casey

#19. Apparently we love our own cell phones but we hate everyone else's.

Joe Bob Briggs

#20. War with Canada was far less of an enigma to me than what Aunt Evelyn was going to use for a toilet during the night

Philip Roth

#21. I think, apart from Sir Garfield Sobers nobody else has played 20 years in international cricket and 20 years playing at the very highest level and to the very highest standard is an achievement beyond compare.

Sunil Gavaskar

#22. India's fortune will depend on how many runs the little champion scores. There is no doubt Tendulkar is the real thing.

Sunil Gavaskar

#23. When you sit down and focus on the matches and series that took place during the 12 month period it strikes you just how broad the talent pool is in international cricket is today.

Sunil Gavaskar

#24. When I die, the last thing I want to see is the six that Dhoni hit in the 2011 World Cup final.

Sunil Gavaskar

#25. Before dying, my last wish will be to see MS Dhoni's World Cup
Winning Six.

Sunil Gavaskar

#26. Let the pronunciamento of your incognito do the incogitable that enlightens the incognizant.

Anyaele Sam Chiyson

#27. Srikkanth is a vegetarian. If he swallows a fly, he will be in trouble

Sunil Gavaskar

#28. Pakistan without Ajmal is like car without engine

Sunil Gavaskar

#29. I like that people can just look at you and know that you are taken, that you are mine." He closed his eyes and laughed. "And yes, I know that sentiment is at the top of the Women's Liberation Movement's list of things not to say to a modern woman.

Patricia Briggs

#30. There are kings on every other bush in Ireland.

Charles Brady

#31. Devil wanted to play cricket. So Ravindra Jadeja was born.

Sunil Gavaskar