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"I wish everyone had my parents like I had them because they always allowed me to choose even when I was young I decided. They never put pressure on me even when I played other sports."
"It is wonderful for us tennis players to have a Pope who follows us and has played."
"Sinner: The ball, there it is. If you want to play a little. Pope Leo XIV: But we'll break something here! We'd better not. Pope Leo XIV: I saw that you won last night.... How do you see Rome? Sinner: Now we are in the game. At the beginning of the tournament it was a bit difficult, now with three games we have picked up some rhythm. Pope Leo XIV: Courage."
"(Pope Leo XIV to Sinner) In this dress at Wimbledon they would let me play...."
"The Italians are passionate and emotional like me, while Jannik is serious and compassionate. Becoming No 1 with you is a potentially disruptive role, [...]. With what generosity will Sinner be willing to give himself to a starving country? He repeats that he is only focused on improvement. I am curious to find out. [...] A position [number one] not easy to hold, indeed. The eyes always on you, the pressure, everyone pulling you by the jacket. Where does Sinner usually rest in Italy? Does he know he has to go around escorted? He's a quiet and reserved guy, who likes to travel under the radar: he's going to bump into Italian enthusiasm. I wish him fun in the leadership role, to give himself some room to manoeuvre, otherwise the number one risks crushing him."
"I read things about Sinner that predict a great future for him. I hope the things I read will come true, like those of Nicola Pietrangeli and Davis. I am now in my nineties, and Sinner's remains among the best days I have had."
"It doesn't worry me, it stimulates me. And it gives me strength. With Jannik there is a good relationship and a healthy rivalry, which will be good for both of us."
"I admire him. Somehow I see myself in him: he thinks about work and performance more than about appearing as a character outside sport."
"Djokovic has a lot in his arsenal, he can play both attack and defence. Sinner is one-dimensional. He is stupidly designed to hit. He is a modified version of the same Hrbaty and Johansson. More modernised."
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.