• For 24 years I have played cricket for India, I have faced many challenges: Sachin
• I have found solutions to all challenges during my career with the help of my family: Sachin
• Most important thing for me was to play for my country for 24 years and it has been a dream journey: Sachin
• I have no regrets of retiring, it was the right time: Sachin
• I will play somewhere. I will always have an association with the game, not in the immediate future, but some day: Sachin
• It hasn't yet hit me that I won't be playing cricket anymore.. I think I will play it off and on
• This journey has been incredible. Cricket is my oxygen
• The feeling that I will never play cricket has not sunk in yet: Sachin Tendulkar
• I have no regrets, because I thought this was the right time to end my journey: Sachin
• I will remain associated to cricket in one way or the other: Sachin
• I was enjoying but I always felt whenever I feel like retiring, I will tell everyone: Sachin
• Sachin: Don't feel I have retired
• My body was not able to cope up with all the training and the games. I was losing my consistency: Sachin
• I wanted my last match to be Mumbai because prior to my farewell, my mother has never seen me play: Sachin
• My body wasn't able to sustain the load of international cricket: Sachin
• I was enjoying but I always felt whenever I feel like retiring, I will tell everyone: Sachin
• My mother had never seen me play a single ball. I wanted to play in front of her, in Mumbai: Sachin
• My family, my mother have sacrificed everything for me. This award, the Bharat Ratna, is for my mother: Sachin
• My Bharat Ratna is for all mothers across India: Sachin
• I am humbled that the Bharat Ratna has been bestowed upon me: Sachin
• I want to congratulate Dr CNR Rao for his Bharat Ratna. I am truly honoured to be getting it with him: Sachin
• In whatever I do, India comes first: Sachin
• Opening a cricket academy is a nice thought, I will be involved with cricket in some capacity: Sachin
• I would like to share my knowledge and experience with the next generation and be involved with cricket: Sachin
