5 life lessons we can all learn from Sachin Tendulkar

#4 Sacrifice

The sportsperson that one sees lighting up the television screen has to put in hours of hard yards in training and a lot of work goes on behind the scenes to make things work. It is not all about the natural gifts one is born with and sportspersons often make sacrifices that people might be completely unaware of.

Tendulkar's skills as a batsman were apparent right from the time when he was a child but when he moved to Sardashram School in order to take advantage of the higher quality cricket team that the school had to offer, he had to leave home and stay with his aunt. It is quite incredible to fathom that, as a child, he could not live with his parents and instead stayed with relatives in order to realise his dreams of becoming a cricketer. Needless to say, his parents must also get credit for allowing him to chase his dreams.