In terms of technique and compactness, Tendulkar is the best.

Desmond Haynes

I have watched a lot of Tendulkar and we have spoken to each other a lot. He
has it in him to be among the very best.
Sir Garfield Sobers

He is 99.5 percent perfect. I'd pay to see him.

Viv Richards

I have never seen Bradman but heard people talk about him. But I tell you
what, if Bradman could bat like this man does then he was dynamite.
Players like Sachin deserve to be preserved in cotton wool.
Viv Richards

I saw him playing on television and was struck by his technique, so I asked
my wife to come 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.
Sir Donald Bradman

Technically he stands out as the best because of his ability to increase the
pace at will.
David Boon

There is no shame being beaten by such a great player, Sachin is perhaps

only next to the Don.

Steve Waugh

Sachin is crickets god.

Barry Richards

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

A complete batsman he's the best in the business.

Mohinder Amarnath

Sachin is an attacker. He has much more power than Sunny. He wants to

be the one to set the pace. He has to be on top. That's the buzz about him.
Jeff Thomson

If I've to bowl to Sachin, I'll bowl with my helmet on. He hits the ball so hard.

Dennis Lillee

I'll be going to bed having nightmares of Sachin just running down the
wicket and belting me back over the head for six. He was unstoppable. I don't
think anyone, apart from Don Bradman, is in the same class as Sachin
Tendulkar. He is just an amazing player.
Shane Warne

You have to watch India in India truly to appreciate the pressure that Sachin
Tendulkar is under every time he bats. Outside grounds, people wait until he
goes in before paying to enter. They seem to want a wicket to fall even though
it is their own side that will suffer.
Shane Warne

Don't bowl him bad balls, he hits the good ones for fours.
Michael Kasprowicz

Hell, if he had stayed, even at 11 an over he would have got it.

Allan Border (after India won the Coca-Cola cup in Sharjah)

He is a perfectly balanced batsman and knows perfectly well when to attack

and when to play defensive cricket. He has developed the ability to treat
bowlers all over the world with contempt and can destroy any attack with
utmost ease.
Greg Chappell

He's a phenomenon. We have to be switched on when he plays allow him no

boundries, for then he doesn't stop.
Mark Taylor

Tendulkar is the most complete batsman I have stood behind. I saw the
hundred in Perth on a bouncy pitch with Hughes, McDermott and Whitney
gunning for him he only had 60-odd when No 11 came in. I've seen him
against Warne too.
Ian Healy

He has defined cricket in his fabulous, impeccable manner. He is to batting

what Shane Warne is to bowling.
Richie Benaud

I still think Tendulkar is the best batsmen in the world, ahead of Steve
Waugh and Lara.
Glenn McGrath

There's no doubt about it. He is the best.

Tony Grieg

Technically, you can't fault Sachin. Seam or spin, fast or slow nothing is
a problem.
Geoffrey Boycott