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Motivation Quote by Sachin Tendulkar

"Obviously after such a long gap, one itches to get back to the game and score big runs"

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That word “obviously” does a lot of work: it turns a private craving into a public expectation, the kind an athlete like Sachin Tendulkar never truly gets to opt out of. After a “long gap,” he doesn’t talk about easing in, finding rhythm, or managing the body. He reaches straight for the most charged currency in cricket: “score big runs.” It’s not just ambition; it’s the job description he’s been handed by a country that learned to measure its weekends in his centuries.

The line is calibrated modesty. “One itches” sounds almost clinical, as if desire is a skin-level irritation rather than a furnace. That distance matters. Tendulkar’s persona has always been disciplined, low-drama, built to withstand the endless replay of his own legend. By framing the hunger as a natural reflex, he sidesteps arrogance while still signaling intent: he’s not returning to participate, he’s returning to dominate.

Context is everything here. A layoff in elite sport is never neutral; it invites questions about decline, fragility, and whether time has finally found you. Tendulkar answers without answering. He doesn’t promise results, but he plants the standard so high that anything else would read like underperformance. The subtext is a quiet negotiation with pressure: yes, I feel it too; yes, I want what you want. And by saying it plainly, he reasserts the old contract between icon and audience: give me the stage back, and I’ll try to give you the numbers that make belief look like math.

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Tendulkar, Sachin. (2026, January 16). Obviously after such a long gap, one itches to get back to the game and score big runs. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/obviously-after-such-a-long-gap-one-itches-to-get-102762/

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Tendulkar, Sachin. "Obviously after such a long gap, one itches to get back to the game and score big runs." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/obviously-after-such-a-long-gap-one-itches-to-get-102762/.

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"Obviously after such a long gap, one itches to get back to the game and score big runs." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/obviously-after-such-a-long-gap-one-itches-to-get-102762/. Accessed 13 Feb. 2026.

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

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