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"I always score one against the Germans."
"(in the build-up to the France-Portugal semi final at the 2006 World Cup) "This is the BBC and we will be completely impartial, so allez les bleus. With me tonight holding their lucky coqs sportifs under the desk are...""
"The best place to watch Wimbledon F.C. is teletext. As you can tell, I dislike Wimbledon. Hate them, even."
"Football is a simple game, twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win."
"There is no huge influx. We take far fewer refugees than other major European countries. This is just an immeasurably cruel policy directed at the most vulnerable people in language that is not dissimilar to that used by Germany in the 30s, and I'm out of order?"
""Fußball ist ein einfaches Spiel. 22 Männer rennen 82 Minuten dem Ball hinterher, und Deutschland kriegt einen Spieler vom Platz gestellt. Also jagen 21 Männer für 13 Minuten dem Ball hinterher, und am Ende gewinnen irgendwie verdammt noch mal die Deutschen" – Gary Lineker per Twitter (@GaryLineker) June 23, 2018, nach dem spektakulären Freistoßtor von Toni Kroos zum 2:1 in der fünften Minute der Nachspielzeit im FIFA WM Gruppenspiel gegen Schweden."
"„Fußball ist ein einfaches Spiel: 22 Männer jagen 90 Minuten lang einem Ball nach, und am Ende gewinnen die Deutschen.“"
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.