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"Over the past year, I have learned an incredible amount, and the coaches and my teammates always make sure I’m still learning something new every single day."
"I’m not a person who looks that far ahead - I’m taking it day by day."
"I think it was a good opportunity for me to help, do my best for the team, and this was the main goal."
"I had a lot of praise, and I am happy with that."
"The team is very grateful to have such a guy. He is very good to everyone and the way he carries himself, I think is very nice that we learn a lot from him."
"I do the same thing I always have, and I train the same way. So in that way, nothing has changed. I just do my best, and now I have the chance."
"The coaches tell me what to do, and then I try to do it. I'm not afraid to take a chance with a pass, because that's part of our style of play, and if we lose the ball, you can always try to win it back."
"I've never scored many goals, so of course I was happy, but it wasn't that big of a deal for me. The most important thing was that we won the game."
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.