Sourav Ganguly Quotes

I approach every game with the same level of seriousness.

To some Softball is a game; to others it's Life.

The best thing about Sachin Tendulkar is that he's completely rooted, down to earth, and a thorough gentleman. He's probably the best thing to have happened to Indian cricket and maybe Indian sport as a whole.

Sachin Tendulkar has carried the burden of the nation for 21 years. It is time we carried him on our shoulders

I don't think I can play any other way but all out . . . I enjoy the game so much because I'm putting so much into it.

If your uniform isn't dirty, you haven't been in the game.

I want to be the best player to ever play this game.

All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It's my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At sunset, I've won or lost. At sunrise, I'm out again, giving it the old try.

Basketball was always a game to me. One of the greatest things in life for me was to be able to play what I loved dearly and get paid for it. So it was always a game to me and that's how I perceived everything.

If you love the game and you love playing, just have fun and enjoy it. Work hard and don't get bogged down by it.

Practice the game the way you're going to play the game. Practice hard and play hard. Run hard and above all else, hustle every moment you're on the field where you are practicing or playing in a game.

Every time a player goes out to ply his trade he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play. Some guys play with their heads. That's O.K. You've got to be smart to be Number One in any business. But more important, you've got to play with you heart - with every fiber of your body. If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second.

I play every game like it's going to be my last.

You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give what's left.

What I've talked about the entire series and throughout this playoffs is about intensity and effort, desire and will of our players.

I just want to keep working hard, stay humble, and keep trying to win games.

It is a wonderful tribute to the game or to the dottiness of the people who play it that for some people somewhere there is no such thing as an insurmountable obstacle, an unplayable course, the wrong time of the day or year.

You've gotta love the game. To become really good, you need to live it and sleep it.

Very sorry to disappoint you, guys. It was not for my girlfriend but for Sachin Tendulkar.

You have got to love the game.

If all of us who love baseball and are doing our jobs, then those who get the game from us will be as proud to be a part of it as we were. And we are. This game is a gift, and I am humbled, very humbled, to accept its greatest honor.

I think that drive to fight the fight day in and day out, I think that can go away. You can lose that. As long as you continue to be consumed and overwhelmed with the desire to get better and find another way and keep competing to figure out what you can do to help make this guy be better than he was a day ago, as long as that's there, I don't agree.

My motivation comes from playing the game I love.

Sooner or later, all games become serious.

I learned all about life with a ball at my feet