Gavaskar's Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. I've always had a bazillion songs in my archive, but I want to play people stuff they know. Now that I have two albums' worth of material, that gives me freedom to compose a set that's more well-balanced and build a show rather than just a recital of some songs.

Kate Voegele

#4. One is ashamed to say how little is needed for all men to be delivered from those calamities which now oppress them; it is only needful not to lie.

Leo Tolstoy

#5. The Peruvian faces are completely different from that faces in Argentina and in Brazil.

Walter Salles

#6. 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

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

Sunil Gavaskar

#8. I've been locked up for 264 days.
1 window. 4 walls. 144 square feet of space. 26 letters in an alphabet I haven't spoken in 264 days of isolation.
6.336 hours since I've touched another human being.

Tahereh Mafi

#9. He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.

Queen Victoria

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

Sunil Gavaskar

#11. Are you going away with no word of farewell? Will there be not a trace left behind? Well I could have loved you better, didn't mean to be unkind. You know that was the last thing on my mind.

Phil Ochs

#12. 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

#13. Our bodies bound by space and time, under laws of nature.
That's why we see life as if a journey in space that needs time.
When we pass boundary, we'll see that life is a state of nature.

Toba Beta

#14. Wherever they may have come from, and wherever they may have gone,
unicorns live inside the true believer's heart.
Which means as long as we can dream, there will be unicorns.

Bruce Coville

#15. 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

#16. 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

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

Sunil Gavaskar

#18. Her [Albertine's] intense and velvety gaze fastened itself, glued itself to the passer-by, so adhesive, so corrosive, that you felt that, in withdrawing, it must tear away the skin.

Marcel Proust

#19. 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

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

Sunil Gavaskar

#21. Dance me through to the stillness
to the point where the motion begins.
Dance me through to the silence
to the edge where the world begins.

Kathryn Price NicDhana

#22. I usually try to make my images look like they just exist, like no effort was put into it.

Mario Testino

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

Sunil Gavaskar

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

Sunil Gavaskar

#25. Toffs could get up to speed. But Ben at least knew roughly

John Cleese

#26. Pakistan without Ajmal is like car without engine

Sunil Gavaskar

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

Sunil Gavaskar

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

Ravi Shastri

#29. Apparently after six days baking pigs and herding bricks, the inhabitants would kick back with a spot of cock-fighting, bullbaiting, and ratting. It was the sort of place an adventurous gentleman might venture only if he didn't mind being beaten, rolled, and catching an exciting venereal disease.

Ben Aaronovitch