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Motivation Quote by Sachin Tendulkar

"It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it"

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"It has been very good here" is the language of a professional who knows how to respect a venue, a crowd, a tour. Tendulkar starts in the safe, diplomatic register athletes are trained to use: appreciative, measured, almost interchangeable with any post-match comment. Then he snaps the sentence in half with a blunt pivot: "but the World Cup game was different". The power is in that restraint. He refuses melodrama, and by refusing it he lets the listener supply the drama that cricket fans already feel in their bones.

In Tendulkar's mouth, "different significance" isn’t abstract. It’s a coded admission of pressure without ever saying "pressure". A World Cup match is not just another fixture; it’s a national mood swung by a bat, the kind of contest where performance becomes biography. For a player who spent decades carrying India’s sporting expectations, the phrase reads like a quiet boundary between ordinary excellence and historical consequence.

The subtext is also about time. A great inning "here" can be savored and then filed away; a World Cup moment gets archived instantly, replayed endlessly, turned into proof. Tendulkar’s understatement works because it mirrors the athlete’s emotional discipline: he acknowledges the higher stakes without granting them control. The line performs the very composure it describes, reminding you that in elite sport the real contest is often against the weight of meaning itself.

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Tendulkar, Sachin. (n.d.). It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/it-has-been-very-good-here-but-the-world-cup-game-152242/

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Tendulkar, Sachin. "It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it." FixQuotes. Accessed February 2, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/it-has-been-very-good-here-but-the-world-cup-game-152242/.

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"It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it." FixQuotes, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/it-has-been-very-good-here-but-the-world-cup-game-152242/. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.

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Sachin Tendulkar (born April 24, 1973) is a Athlete from India.

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