Virender Sehwag Quotes

Obviously, any player wants to set a record.

200 for a batsman is a big landmark, and I have never been somebody who has chased landmarks, but getting a 200 will always be a proud moment for a batsman.

I don't think people in England ever saw the best of me.

I never thought of breaking a record. The only ambition I had was to become the fastest century maker for India, which I did when I broke Azharuddin's record.

I think my best spell in terms of personal performance was in 2004 - but the best team was under Mark Hughes with Elano.

I wish I'd done better for England. I only played three Tests and three One Day internationals. You have to take your chances and, for whatever reason, I didn't.

Getting rid of all the world records would be a bit of a radical move.

I kept hearing about my 54-hole record and I kept telling myself that records are made to be broken.

It's very hard to reflect properly when you're still playing but the hundreds one - when I got my 23rd in Kolkata - felt the most special because it broke a benchmark that had stood for a very long time. It felt good to do something no Englishman has done before.

The players you really feel bad for are the younger players, who haven't had a chance to experience playing in a World Cup.

I would have been a frustrated man had I not achieved what I wanted to achieve as a cricketer.

It's crazy because it's a British record and a personal best, but I wanted that 2 m. I cleared the 1.97 m. first attempt with space, so I think I could have done a little better.

In my head, I felt if I'd stayed at City and got a chance, I could have done a good job. It was made clear that wasn't going to happen, though.

Missing the chance to go to the 2007 World Cup was the biggest disappointment of my career.

I tried hard to create my own records when a lot of them belonged to Steve Davis, so to see someone else beat yours, you'd be lying if you said there wasn't a twinge of regret there.

Record-breaking is not getting boring. I am definitely happy with that.

There are two things I will always remember. First, a shot against Derby that hit the inside of the post but didn't go in, and we could only draw 2-2. And then the really big chance against Bayer Leverkusen, two minutes from the end of the Champions League semi-final, when I shot over the bar. That hurt a lot.

I didn't make any mark on Barcelona. It was a blip in my career in terms of what I did as a coach.

I wanted to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket. But I could not.

It's a huge honour to play my 100th Test, and I never in my life thought I'll be in this kind of position.

Above all, I want to captain England in more Test victories than anybody else.

Anybody I have spoken to who has held a record says 'Records are meant to be broken.' They get excited when somebody has an opportunity to break one of their records and take the sport even further.

I don't want to look back on my career at some point and say, 'What a pity, I came close a few times, but it was never good enough.'

Ronnie is the greatest player to have ever picked up a snooker cue. People have said that about me. But although I won 50 or so tournaments I never picked up the world championship. That was a little bit of a disappointment.

Records are there to be broken. Lots of people would love to swap their world record for an Olympic medal, but for me, my medals are there forever and ever, and that's what does it for me.